Lukashenko says he is ready to work with the United States on a settlement in Venezuela

Minsk is ready to work with Washington on a pro bono basis to resolve the conflict with Venezuela. This was stated by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in an interview with Newsmax TV on Wednesday, December 17.

"For free, I don't have to pay anything, we will work together to ensure that the Venezuelan people live in peace, and Americans don't die on foreign soil for the sake of some kind of oil, gold, rare earth metals, or in the fight against drugs, and so on," the BelTA news agency quoted him as saying.

This signal, as the Belarusian president said, was transmitted on Tuesday, December 16, to the head of the White House, Donald Trump, through the special envoy of the American leader to Belarus, John Cole. Lukashenko noted that it is important to save people's lives.

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On December 16, the President of Belarus said that the doors of his state are always open to the leader of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, with whom "it is always possible to negotiate." He stressed that there had never been any talk of such a thing, since Maduro is a strong man who "will not leave everything and run away." On the same day, he talked about plans to talk to Trump about Venezuela in the near future. During the conversation, Lukashenko planned to tell the head of the White House "a lot of interesting things."

On December 17, American journalist Tucker Carlson reported that Trump might declare war on Venezuela during his planned address to the nation. According to him, the American congressmen received a notification the day before that their state's war with Venezuela was "inevitable." On the same day, it became known that the US carrier-based aircraft had lifted four of its military aircraft into the air off the coast of Venezuela. At that time, an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter-bomber, two Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft, and an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye carrier-based tactical long-range radar detection aircraft were circling over the Caribbean Sea.

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