Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday his country did not need a Russian military base, appearing to make a rare concession to public protests before this weekend's presidential election.
In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed a deal for a military airbase on Belarussian territory and ordered defense and foreign ministry officials to start talks with Belarus.
"We don't need a base at the moment ... I hear shrieks from the opposition about the deployment of a Russian airbase. I don't know anything about it," Lukashenko was quoted as saying by official news agency Belta.
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