World News - ’Better a dictator than gay,’ Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko says
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Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus, on Sunday criticized EU politicians who have threatened him with sanctions and in an apparent riposte to the German foreign minister’s branding him “Europe’s last dictator,” said: “Better to be a dictator than gay.”
Guido Westerwelle is Germany’s first openly gay minister.
European Union leaders at a summit in Brussels on Friday called for new measures to pressure the Belarus president over alleged human rights abuses.
Lukashenko has led Belarus since 1994, retaining Soviet-style controls over the economy and cracking down on opposition and independent media.