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09.12.2024 14:59:00
Sergeyenko: parliamentary diplomacy must contribute to indivisible Eurasian security
When the world is militarising, the international law – crumbling at a breakneck speed, and the West – rejecting the indivisible security principle, the voice of parliamentary diplomacy should be the voice of reason and truth, said Chairman of the House of Representatives Igor Sergeyenko today, December 9th, speaking at the joint session of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Parliamentary Assembly Council in Moscow
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“One of the reasons for the new world war they’re trying to draw us into is the collapse of the Western economic model, colonial at its core, that has discredited itself in the minds of the global community. That’s why the global majority nations are trying to build a new, just and multilateral system that has no place for protectionism, illegitimate sanctions, and politicisation of the economy,” the speaker said.
Mr. Sergeyenko reminded everyone about President Lukashenko’s words at the Collective Security Council meeting in Astana on November 28th. The Belarusian leader said the CSTO must become a pillar of the Eurasian military-political security architecture that is now taking shape and to set the trend for the entire regional security agenda.
“That architecture is outlined in the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century signed by Belarus and Russia’s foreign ministers in Brest this November. That initiative should accelerate consolidation processes in politics, economy, etc., in order to ensure security, the strategic balance, and forward-focused development of peoples and nations,” Mr. Sergeyenko added.
President Lukashenko had called on everyone to ‘abandon preconceptions and stereotypes and start painstakingly building up the dialogue, looking for points of contact and rapprochement’. As the House of Representatives Speaker explained, “He advocated for a common space of trust and co-operation, for countries uniting not against someone, but for a common goal: to avoid a fatal civilizational schism. The key principle of this new system is the indivisible security, where no-one can build up their own security at the expense of others. This principle fully aligns with the CSTO spirit and with positions expressed by the leaders of our countries who call for abandoning the block-based worldview in favour of eliminating real dangers threatening the modern world. Those dangers are: economic disparities between the North and the South, the climate change and limited access to ‘green’ technologies, international terrorism and organised crime. Unfortunately, those threats are numerous. Parliamentary diplomacy, being, at its core, a combination of official and popular diplomacy, can and must contribute to this indivisible Eurasian security.”
Mr. Sergeyenko also made a point that the idea to intensify the dialogue within multilateral international organisations in Eurasia put forward by the heads of CSTO states during the latest Collective Security Council meeting in Astana should be supported in every possible way. The organisations they mentioned include ASEAN, CSTO, SCO, CIS, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.
“It is also important to expand our co-operation with leading global organisations. We welcome the Resolution on the UN-CSTO co-operation adopted at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly,” he concluded.
“One of the reasons for the new world war they’re trying to draw us into is the collapse of the Western economic model, colonial at its core, that has discredited itself in the minds of the global community. That’s why the global majority nations are trying to build a new, just and multilateral system that has no place for protectionism, illegitimate sanctions, and politicisation of the economy,” the speaker said.
Mr. Sergeyenko reminded everyone about President Lukashenko’s words at the Collective Security Council meeting in Astana on November 28th. The Belarusian leader said the CSTO must become a pillar of the Eurasian military-political security architecture that is now taking shape and to set the trend for the entire regional security agenda.
“That architecture is outlined in the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century signed by Belarus and Russia’s foreign ministers in Brest this November. That initiative should accelerate consolidation processes in politics, economy, etc., in order to ensure security, the strategic balance, and forward-focused development of peoples and nations,” Mr. Sergeyenko added.
President Lukashenko had called on everyone to ‘abandon preconceptions and stereotypes and start painstakingly building up the dialogue, looking for points of contact and rapprochement’. As the House of Representatives Speaker explained, “He advocated for a common space of trust and co-operation, for countries uniting not against someone, but for a common goal: to avoid a fatal civilizational schism. The key principle of this new system is the indivisible security, where no-one can build up their own security at the expense of others. This principle fully aligns with the CSTO spirit and with positions expressed by the leaders of our countries who call for abandoning the block-based worldview in favour of eliminating real dangers threatening the modern world. Those dangers are: economic disparities between the North and the South, the climate change and limited access to ‘green’ technologies, international terrorism and organised crime. Unfortunately, those threats are numerous. Parliamentary diplomacy, being, at its core, a combination of official and popular diplomacy, can and must contribute to this indivisible Eurasian security.”
Mr. Sergeyenko also made a point that the idea to intensify the dialogue within multilateral international organisations in Eurasia put forward by the heads of CSTO states during the latest Collective Security Council meeting in Astana should be supported in every possible way. The organisations they mentioned include ASEAN, CSTO, SCO, CIS, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.
“It is also important to expand our co-operation with leading global organisations. We welcome the Resolution on the UN-CSTO co-operation adopted at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly,” he concluded.
