Belarusian dictator to blackmail the world with highly enriched uranium

• 14.04.2010, 17:50

Alyaksandr Lukashenka said Belarus had highly enriched uranium.

“I don’t hide: we have highly-enriched uranium, hundreds of kilograms, weapons-grade and less enriched uranium,” Lukashenka said on Wednesday during a working trip to the Homal region, Interfax reports.

“Some people tell me: remove this uranium, send it either to America or to Russia, we’ll pay. I answer: why are you lecturing us? This is our goods, we keep it under control of the IAEA,“ he said.

He also added: “We are not going to make dirty bombsand sell them to anybody. We use this uranium for researches.”

“I am nailed down, I have a pistol put to my head and ordered to give uranium. I say I have already given nuclear weapon. What have we received in exchange? Nobody can dictate anything to us. Let’s talk and decide what can be done with the stores of uranium we have,” Lukashenka said. “We are not a banana republic, we are able to keep the nuclear materials and we have been keeping them for 20 years,” the Belarusian ruler noted.

“They tell me: if you don’t agree to give this uranium, we won’t invite me to the summit (the nuclear security summit in Washington – Interfax). I say: thanks you, but I wasn’t going to attend the summit,” the Belarusian ruler stressed.

According to him, “this fact (Belarus’s non-participation in the summit) demonstrates that the country shouldn’t trust both America and West. “The West leaped at an issue, they achieved what the wanted and ran out on us. This is what happened with nuclear weapon,” Lukashenka said. He emphasized: “It was a great mistake to remove the nuclear weapons from Belarus in the way our nationalists did it.”