Alyaksandr Lukashenka said that Iran has never requested missiles from Belarus and that Minsk would not have supplied them even if such a request had been made.
According to Lukashenka, the issue of alleged Iranian requests for missiles was raised by the American delegation during talks the day before, BelTA reports.
“They have never asked us for missiles. Even if they had, we would not have been able to supply them. Because that would mean a war with the Americans. We do not want that war. These issues should have been discussed before the war. We talked with the Iranians about many things in the military-industrial sphere, discussed them. But it never came to missiles,” Lukashenka said.
He stressed that supplying weapons to one side in a conflict would make Belarus complicit in the war.
“When two sides are fighting and you start delivering weapons there, it means you become, if not a participant, then a supporter of that war and back one side. Do we need that? We do not. And the Iranians did not ask us for this. There was an episode when we discussed certain issues. I always speak about this openly and frankly,” he said.
At the same time, he noted that Belarus maintains alliances with countries involved in the conflict on different sides.
“Our people are on both sides. Everyone is suffering,” Lukashenka added.
