MINSK, 27 September (BelTA) - Belarus's European neighbors are trying to create among their populations a sense of an impending threat from 'barbarians' from the East, Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxim Ryzhenkov said as he addressed the plenary meeting of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on 27 September, BelTA has learned.
“Look at what our European neighbors are doing on the EU border with Belarus and Russia: laying mines, building walls, ditches, defensive lines, and barbed wire. They are trying to create among their populations a sense of an impending threat from 'barbarians' from the East. And there are already first victims, albeit on the side of NATO soldiers, who either drown in swamps or blow themselves up with their own mines,” Maxim Ryzhenkov noted.
The minister noted that a section of the Berlin Wall is displayed near the UN building as a trophy of civil rights. It reads: “155 kilometers, on which 200 people died.”
"Today, a far more enormous wall, stretching thousands of kilometers along the EU border with Russia and Belarus - from Finland to Poland - is being erected. Since its construction this wall has already had hundreds of casualties. Hundreds of innocent migrants from countries of the Global South seeking a better life in the EU, which previously destroyed the familiar way of life in their home nations. If we all together at the UN cannot prevent the construction of this wall, let us at least reserve a spot on the lawn where we will later place a piece of this wall. Until the time when the relevant countries finally come to their senses and understand that such a wall is no longer needed. We will display the information of its length and the number of people who died there. And we will say that this is a trophy of freedom of movement,” the diplomat noted.
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