Minsk, April 20 (Interfax) - Belarus does not need new loans from the International Monetary Fund, said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
"We are saying today: we do not need a new program [with the IMF]," Lukashenko said in an address to the nation and the parliament in Minsk on Tuesday in commenting on Belarus’ relations with Russia.
"We have survived the crisis and now have to thank not Russia, our dear mother Russia, but what I would sarcastically refer to as our foes, like the IMF, Europe, the West and so on. It is they who extended those loans to us so that the country could survive," he said.
