“Now we must say openly: from our side, from not only the authorities, but also ordinary people, there is practically no trust in those partners who are consistently playing a double hypocritical game.

In these conditions, we are forced and will react toughly to any unfriendly steps towards us, ”BelTA quotes him.

As the minister specified, retaliatory measures may affect various areas of cooperation with the European Union.

Earlier, the leaders of the European Union countries, in connection with the incident with the emergency landing of the Ryanair airline in Minsk, called for new sanctions against Belarus as soon as possible.