MINSK, March 31. /TASS/. The hot conflicts of the past few decades began with the West's irrepressible desire to subjugate the world, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an address to the Belarusian people and parliament on Friday.

"What started the hot conflicts of recent decades? It was the irrepressible desire of the West to subjugate the whole world. And not even of the West - of just one country," said Lukashenko.

He added that Washington’s policies had placed "self-sufficient, in some respects very strong and truly independent states under external administration." According to the Belarusian leader, the American influence "penetrated into the political life of this or that country like a virus either through the incumbent authorities or through the opposition."

"As a rule, through the elites, bogged down in rampant corruption," said Lukashenko.