The Parliament of Belarus declared its readiness for contacts with the United States

The Parliament of Belarus is ready for contacts with the United States, Oleg Gaidukevich, deputy chairman of the International Affairs Commission of the Parliament of Belarus, told Izvestia.

"There will be no such [refusal] from contacts with any senator, for example, if he wants to talk to our deputies. Me, we'll always talk. We are ready to discuss any issue in our national interests," he said.

Belarus' contacts with the United States and the West as a whole have never ended, Gaidukevich stressed.

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