MINSK, 31 October (BelTA) - BRICS and the SCO lack concrete decisions, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he addressed the 2nd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security on 31 October, BelTA learned.
The head of state noted that the world is not happy with the unipolar world order. The reaction to this unipolarity, according to him, was the emergence of the regional SCO, global BRICS as platforms for uniting like-minded nations. "The world began to look for some way out of the unipolar world," the president said.
At the same time, he called for an honest assessment of the SCO and BRICS. "Let's be frank about our aspirations and hopes for the SCO and BRICS. I expressed this idea at a SCO summit one time and I still adhere to this position," Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “Today, we pin too much hope on regional and global organizations, for example, the SCO and BRICS. This was evident in Kazan though the BRICS summit was a success indeed. But it was clear that we were ‘beating about the bush’, so to speak, and not taking concrete steps to take this global organization BRICS further. People want an alternative."
Explaining the reason for this state of affairs, the president noted that some are concerned that BRICS may create an impression of claiming the place of the UN and they emphasize they are not against the UN. "Why are we making excuses? If some new organization replaces the UN, truly replaces it, what's wrong with that?" the head of state asked. “In this regard, he pointed to a number of problems in the United Nations. For example, there were cases when representatives of some states were denied visas to participate in the U.N. activities. The importance of participation is decreasing, since the collective West dominates the international mediascape and will show only the things that do not harm the West through international channels.
"Well, what decisions has the UN made recently? What are the useful solutions? Nothing. They do not want to reform. Because for big reforms, we need consensus and voting in the UN at the plenary session, where, again, the collective West will coerce everyone. Who needs such an organization?" the head of state added. 
In this regard, Aleksandr Lukashenko considers it completely inappropriate to gives excuses over BRICS allegedly claiming to replace the UN. "If BRICS finds its place (not instead of the UN, there is still a lot of work to be done on this), if it begins to exercise the interests of the participating states, nothing bad will happen," the Belarusian leader is convinced. In his opinion, it can become a kind of "mini-UN".
But if everything continues as it is now (in BRICS, the SCO), then people will simply turn away, the president believes. "People are now looking for a way out. We need to show them this way out," he said. This, according to him, should be done primarily by those states that founded BRICS, the SCO, in particular China, Russia, India. "Show us, lead us forward. You have taken the first step, and all of humanity has turned to you," the head of state emphasized. “But we don't see it yet. To put it mildly, there is still work to be done to meet the aspirations of the international community."
