German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a telephone conversation with Alexander Lukashenko. This is the first direct contact between the President of Belarus and the leader of one of the Western countries after the 2020 presidential elections..
Lukashenka's press service, in turn, released a message that his negotiations with Merkel lasted 50 minutes.
During the dialogue, Lukashenko and Merkel discussed a number of problems and, first of all, the situation with refugees on the Belarusian-Polish, Belarusian-Lithuanian and Belarusian-Latvian borders. In detail, the conversation touched upon the ways and prospects of solving the migration problem in order to prevent an escalation of the situation at the border..
According to the official representative of the German government Steffen Seibert, Merkel and Lukashenko agreed to continue the discussion of these issues..