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Lukashenko will not go to Moscow on May 9 parade
[ 18 April 2015 22:58 ]
Belarusian President to celebrate May 9 in Minsk instead
Baku-APA. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has refused to attend Russia's Victory Day Parade in Mocow on May 9, APA reports quoting local media.
Instead Lukashenko will take part in memorial events and lay wreths to the Unknown Soldier's grave on May 7-8 in Moscow.
"I do not support those politicians who promised to come in Moscow and then refused. The other situation is when you are busy at home," commented Lukashenko.
US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have already refused to attend the Victory Day commemorations, 70 years after the end of World War Two on May 9, in reaction to the Kremlin's military intervention in Ukraine.
The Chinese President Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un of North Korea are the most high-profile leaders to attend.