The heads of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland rejected a photo with Lukashenko at the UN meeting – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

The press service of the President of Lithuania stated that it was a “family photo.” “Lukashenko does not belong to the family we want to belong to,” the TASS report quotes.

Furthermore, according to Nauseda, “standing shoulder to shoulder” with Lukashenko “would be hypocritical.”

It is not specified who initiated the refusal to be photographed.

Judging by the photograph published by the BelTA agency, Lukashenko was in the front row next to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the photograph.

Recall that previously the Foreign Ministers of Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia refused to participate in the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Skopje due to the presence of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, described this decision as “self-incrimination of those who muddied the waters” in the OSCE and the European Union.