MP: Belarusian politics is struggle for peace
As the President of Belarus once said, tens and hundreds of years of negotiations are better than one day of war. When the world is on fire, Belarusians continue to keep the peace on their territory. Igor Marzalyuk, the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Education, Culture and Science at the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, commented on the issue in his talk with Alfa Radio.
Mr. Marzalyuk noted that the President of Belarus has always understood that calm and stable development is the most important point. However, in order for this to happen, it is necessary to ensure that everything around is also progressing. Belarusians have always done this, and this practice continues.
“Belarusian politics is a struggle for peace. I apologise for maybe the Soviet clichés, but it is a struggle for world peace. Long before all this, when it seemed that everything was quiet and wonderful, new Helsinki Agreements were proposed by the authorities and the Foreign Ministry; just recall that initiative of Belarus’ President. We have always consistently defended such aspects. Belarus is a peace-loving, peace-making country, and the role of its President in maintaining peace in the region, in Eurasia, is really enormous. Many great things are seen from afar. Actually, I would call the contribution to the preservation of peace and human lives – which have become the alpha and omega of foreign policy – the doctrine of Aleksandr Lukashenko,” the MP said.
Mr. Marzalyuk stated that the Belarusian leader deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for what he has done, “Starting from his famous flight to Yugoslavia, when people’s destruction there was stopped, and up to the Minsk agreements, which are so much being attacked. Actually, those were eight years when we were absolutely sincere in our desire to create a zone of peace and to reconcile the closest, most fraternal peoples. Unfortunately for us, our strategic allies and partners, the West and the Kiev authorities refused to comply with the Minsk agreements, and that was not our fault. Actually, the most important point often is to choose the right point in starting something or blaming someone.”
The MP added that Belarus was trying to do everything possible and impossible at that time, “In particular, let's recall the Istanbul agreements: they were disrupted because of the Ukrainian side. Their foundations were prepared on our Belarusian land. The first thing that Belarus’ President did, no matter how much we were accused of, was that he did everything possible and impossible after the start of the special military operation to launch a dialogue between the fraternal peoples: Kiev and Moscow, Ukraine and Russia. This Belarusian position remains unchanged, because we perfectly understand that there is a common civilisational space, there are common meanings. True, we are proud and original peoples, we are not just Slavs, we are Eastern Slavs, and we all have been baptised in the Dnieper font.
