Posted: 06.12.2024 10:53:00

Belarus' Deputy Foreign Minister: NATO brought security crisis back to Europe

Actions of NATO and the EU make some countries face choices that tear their peoples and territories apart, said Belarus’ Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Ambrazevich in his address to the OSCE Ministerial Council on December 5th

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“The cold war is long over. The world went through the unipolarity period, left the predicted end of history behind. But the security crisis is now back in Europe. It came back because some people in this room, and I mean NATO countries, convinced themselves that might is right and that they can replace the immutable principle of just and indivisible security with a security they build for themselves at the expense of others. Actions of NATO and the EU based around the ‘my way or the highway’ approach make some countries face fateful choices that tear their peoples and their territories apart,” said the Belarusian diplomat.

According to Mr. Ambrazevich, the result was that the European security system, built painstakingly by people who remembered the horrors brought in by the greatest war of the 20th century, crumbled before our eyes. For Ukraine, its collapse proved even more terrifying.

“Who is next?” asked the Deputy Foreign Minister.

Like Soviet diplomats decades ago, Belarus today has one clear goal. We want acceptable and lasting security guarantees for our people and our allies as much as everyone. We are ready to sit at the negotiating table tomorrow, because we are convinced that a decade of talks is better that even a few days of war.

“But let’s face the truth. Is achieving this goal possible in our current OSCE format? The world has changed a lot in 50 years. Now, the greater Europe, even counting the United States, is but a part, albeit an important one, of the giant new multipolar world that is gradually taking shape,” continued the Belarusian diplomat.

“Belarus is just another proof of that. All attempts by the US and the EU to destroy Belarus with sanctions or build a wall around it, have been rendered futile by our ally Russia, our strategic partner China, people from the Global South, the global majority who feel the same and are coming ever closer together,” he concluded.