Czech President-elect Miloš Zeman accused of contacts with Lukashenka
The Czech PM refused to meet Lukashenka six times during his official visit to Belarus in 2002.
However, the Czech newspaper Mladá fronta Dnes has expressed a different opinion. The edition quoted Belarusian Alyaksei Rusheinikau, member of the national minorities committee of Karlovy Vary Region, on January 29, 2013. According to him, the Rusheinikaus have known Miloš Zeman "since the time when he went to reach an agreement with the Belarusian dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, when he was exercising pressure on the opposition". His wife passed the security guards on the plane and talked to Miloš Zeman, Alyaksei Ruzheinikau recalled. "Although Alyaksandr Lukashenka did not listen to Miloš Zeman, he was the only politician who decided t visit him," Ruzheinikau stressed.
Lukashenka and Zeman's meeting may be the product of Ruzheinikau's imagination, the Belarusian House in Prague notes. Nevertheless, the Belarusian House in Prague has sent an inquiry to Miloš Zeman's election team asking about the possibility of his meeting with Lukashenka and the future President's plans to support Belarusian political prisoners.
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