Yuri Ambrazevich. Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
MINSK, 17 December (BelTA) – All the signs of destruction of international security in the global sense of the word are evident at present. Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yuri Ambrazevich made the statement via a videoconference call during the 7th session of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Ministerial Council) of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), BelTA has learned.
Yuri Ambrazevich said: “I’d like to speak about painful issues: challenges to international security because trust and interaction are inalienable components of security. It may seem that so much has been said about international security. The formulas of success are public knowledge and the right recipes are available, however, the world has never been closer to World War Three. All the signs of destruction of international security in the global sense of the word are evident today.”
He also pointed out that key international agreements in the field of arms control and disarmament are getting ignored. “An arms race is picking up the pace,” the deputy minister of foreign affairs stressed. “We in Belarus feel this pressure at the western and southern borders of the country where NATO members deploy new troops and are actively arming themselves. The ignoring of interests of neighbors by western countries and the rejection to observe the principle of indivisibility of security have led to a conflict between Russia and NATO in Ukraine that blazes at our southern border.”
“Unilateral economic restrictions of Western countries against Belarus, Russia, Iran, and other countries are getting all the states of the world into the orbit of conflicts born in Europe and the Middle East. Even geographically remote countries,” Yuri Ambrazevich added. “Fragmentation and regionalization trends are getting stronger in the global economy. The future of free trade is undecided. A war of tariffs and barriers is possible in the future. The freedom of payments is no more.” The deputy minister of foreign affairs also pointed out that the flows of refugees and migrants keep getting bigger all the time.
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