MOSCOW, 9 December (BelTA) - Belarus is in favor of building equal indivisible Eurasian security, Chairman of the House of Representatives Igor Sergeyenko said at the joint session of the Council and the 17th plenary session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Moscow on 9 December, BelTA learned.
“At the session of the Collective Security Council held in Astana on 28 November, the Belarusian president emphasized that the CSTO should become one of the military and political pillars of the emerging security architecture of the Eurasian continent and set the trend for the entire regional security agenda. The contours of this security architecture are laid out in the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century, a document signed by the foreign ministers of Belarus and Russia in Brest in November of this year. This initiative should accelerate the processes of political, economic and other consolidation to ensure security, strategic stability and progressive development of the countries and peoples,” Igor Sergeyenko said.
“The head of our state urged to ‘move away from prejudices and stereotypes and start painstaking work to build a dialogue, step by step search for points of contact and rapprochement.’ He support building a common space of trust and cooperation, the unification of countries not against anyone, but in the name of a common goal to avoid a fatal civilizational rift. The key principle of building a new system is the indivisibility of security: the security of some cannot be ensured at the expense of the security of others,” the speaker of the House of Representatives aid.
In his opinion, this thesis is fully in line with the spirit of the CSTO, the position of the leaders of the states calling to move away from bloc thinking and concentrate efforts on eliminating genuine threats to the modern world. “These are economic inequality of the North and the South, climate change and limiting access to green technologies, international terrorism and organized crime. Unfortunately, the list of these problems is quite long,” Igor Sergeyenko stated.
He noted that parliamentary diplomacy, which, in fact, is a symbiosis of official and popular diplomacy, can and must make its contribution to building equal indivisible Eurasian security. “The idea of intensifying the dialogue at the Eurasian multilateral international organizations expressed by the heads of state during the recent session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana should be fully supported by the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. I am referring primarily to ASEAN, the CSTO, the SCO, the CIS and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia. It is also important to expand cooperation with major global organizations. We welcome a resolution on cooperation between the United Nations and the CSTO adopted at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in November of this year,” Igor Sergeyenko emphasized.
“At the session of the Collective Security Council held in Astana on 28 November, the Belarusian president emphasized that the CSTO should become one of the military and political pillars of the emerging security architecture of the Eurasian continent and set the trend for the entire regional security agenda. The contours of this security architecture are laid out in the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century, a document signed by the foreign ministers of Belarus and Russia in Brest in November of this year. This initiative should accelerate the processes of political, economic and other consolidation to ensure security, strategic stability and progressive development of the countries and peoples,” Igor Sergeyenko said.
“The head of our state urged to ‘move away from prejudices and stereotypes and start painstaking work to build a dialogue, step by step search for points of contact and rapprochement.’ He support building a common space of trust and cooperation, the unification of countries not against anyone, but in the name of a common goal to avoid a fatal civilizational rift. The key principle of building a new system is the indivisibility of security: the security of some cannot be ensured at the expense of the security of others,” the speaker of the House of Representatives aid.
In his opinion, this thesis is fully in line with the spirit of the CSTO, the position of the leaders of the states calling to move away from bloc thinking and concentrate efforts on eliminating genuine threats to the modern world. “These are economic inequality of the North and the South, climate change and limiting access to green technologies, international terrorism and organized crime. Unfortunately, the list of these problems is quite long,” Igor Sergeyenko stated.
He noted that parliamentary diplomacy, which, in fact, is a symbiosis of official and popular diplomacy, can and must make its contribution to building equal indivisible Eurasian security. “The idea of intensifying the dialogue at the Eurasian multilateral international organizations expressed by the heads of state during the recent session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana should be fully supported by the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. I am referring primarily to ASEAN, the CSTO, the SCO, the CIS and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia. It is also important to expand cooperation with major global organizations. We welcome a resolution on cooperation between the United Nations and the CSTO adopted at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in November of this year,” Igor Sergeyenko emphasized.
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