MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has no plans to talk to the opposition’s Coordination Council, as he himself said in an interview with Russian journalists on Tuesday.

"I won’t talk to the opposition’s Coordination Council because I don’t know who these people are. They are no opposition. What they suggest will be a catastrophe for Belarus and the Belarusian people. They want to cut ties with our brotherly country, Russia, they want people to pay for healthcare and education. They want our industrial facilities to be destroyed and workers to lose their jobs," Editor-in-Chief of the Govoril Moskva radio station Roman Babayan quoted Lukashenko on Telegram.

Belarus held its presidential election on August 9. According to the Central Election Commission, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko received 80.1% of the vote, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya garnered 10.12%. She refused to recognize the election’s results, left Belarus and is currently in Lithuania. On August 14, Tikhanovskaya initiated the creation of a coordination council to ensure transfer of power. On August 20, the Belarusian Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case over calls for the seizure of power.