MINSK, 18 February (BelTA) – The year 2021 saw an unprecedented increase in international tensions, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said at a meeting of the collegium of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus on 18 February, BelTA has learned.
“Against the backdrop of China's continued economic growth, which has already outstripped the United States in many ways, and Russia's demand to unconditionally take into account its interests in the field of regional and global security, Washington has stepped up its actions against the both ‘fundamental competitors'. These processes were assessed comprehensively in the president's Address to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly in January this year,” the foreign minister said.
He spoke in detail about a number of external factors that have had and continue to have a direct or indirect impact on our country and that must be taken into account in foreign policy and foreign economic activity.
“The increasing international tensions are accompanied by the creation of new and revitalization of existing alliances with a focus on political and military activities. In the European region, these are the Three Seas Initiative and the Bucharest Nine that are at the forefront of the anti-Russian, and recently anti-Belarusian policy, as well as the recently created tripartite alliance of Great Britain, Poland and Ukraine,” Vladimir Makei said.
He went on saying: “Western countries have stepped up their attempts to undermine the UN-centric international architecture, to impose on the global community a kind of ‘the order based on rules', to split the world along ideological lines into ‘democracy' and ‘autocracy'.
