Maxim Ryzhenkov
MINSK, 10 September (BelTA) – Politicians of the European Union are doing their best in order to convert the European Union into some kind of a besieged fortress although there is no need for that. Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxim Ryzhenkov made the statement when asked to comment on rising tensions at the country’s western border, BelTA has learned.
Maxim Ryzhenkov pointed out that European Union politicians, whose opinion prevails in Brussels offices, “are doing their best in order to convert the European Union into some kind of a besieged fortress”. “The fact is there is no need for that. It is an absolutely senseless endeavor from the point of view of ensuring security and stability in the region. On the contrary, it adds to higher tensions and escalation,” he is convinced.
One can draw conclusions on their own from objective data. Poland has stated its intention to set up Europe’s largest army over the course of several years. Poland buys weapons all over the world and offensive weapons at that. NATO makes decisions to raise armament spending targets, militarization targets to 5% and to 7% of the GDP in some countries. “Every third euro in Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland will be spent on militarization, on buying weapons instead of social projects or infrastructure,” the minister noted.
The Polish government’s decision to close the border with Belarus allegedly due to the Belarusian-Russian strategic army exercise Zapad 2025 is one of these steps. Maxim Ryzhenkov pointed out that about 10,000 military personnel will take part in the exercise in Belarus. To reduce the degree of tensions, Belarus has decided to relocate the main events of the exercise into the depth of the country, far away from the European Union border in order to prevent anyone from seeing anything aggressive in this exercise, the minister stressed. Moreover, representatives of other countries, including NATO ones, have been invited to observe the exercise.
Meanwhile, near Belarus’ western borders European Union countries are staging war games involving 30,000-40,000 military personnel and a huge amount of weapons and hardware relocated from other European Union countries. “And Poland accuses us of presenting a greater danger for Poland and other countries of the European Union with our own exercise! Either Poland lacks confidence in its own armed forces and believes that this situation is advantageous for Belarus,” the Belarusian minister of foreign affairs noted.
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