MINSK, 6 October (BelTA) - For color revolutionaries, negotiations are not a tool for compromise but an instrument of overthrowing the government, Piotr Petrovsky, an expert with the Belarusian public association Belaya Rus, said in an interview with BelTA.
“We must understand from the very start that color revolutions use negotiations not as a tool for reaching a compromise but an instrument of overthrowing the government. They are not inclined to negotiate. They use negotiations as a tool to discredit the government and to drag some of its representatives to their side,” Piotr Petrovsky said. “First, this misleads the society that might start to believe that the government admits that it is weak. Secondly, this mobilizes protesters who then are encouraged to step up street riots, to seize administrative and police buildings”.
The expert noted that a color revolution never conforms with the constitutional institutions. "This is its essence, because the forces that have no support in the society cannot seize power by utilizing democratic constitutional procedures. Therefore, they use fast mechanisms of forcing the state to negotiate and simultaneously turn up heat through street protests to put pressure on this government demanding an unconstitutional change of power," he said.
Piotr Petrovsky cited examples. "We can start with the velvet revolutions of the 1980s. The negotiations in Poland and the overthrow of Jaruzelski, the elected president of Poland, who was toppled a year later. Another example is Yugoslavia where everyone pushed for negotiations with Milosevic, who was later overthrown. We saw similar situations in Ukraine in 2004 and 2014: then and now there were negotiations which later became instruments of overthrowing the legitimate governments bypassing the constitutional mechanism. The Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003. We see the developments in Kyrgyzstan where they again advocate the elements of negotiations. Thus, from the very beginning it is clear that for color revolutionaries dialogue is not a tool for finding a compromise or returning to the constitutional framework. On the contrary, this is a way to circumvent the Constitution, undermine the current political system and mount an unconstitutional coup,” Piotr Petrovsky added.
"Any dialogues should take place within the constitutional framework of the current legislation. There is a parliament, local government bodies. If we are talking about Belarus, there is the institute such as the All-Belarus People's Congress, which should convene in late December - January. These are the natural tools to be used,” the expert added.
