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13 Jun 2023

Belarus calls to build international architecture with fair system of security guarantees

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MINSK, 13 June (BelTA) – Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yuri Ambrazevich spoke at the UN Disarmament Commission plenary session on prevention of nuclear war, BelTA learned from the Permanent Mission of Belarus to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva.

"It is regrettable to realize that after decades of being on the agenda of the Conference, the topic of preventing nuclear war is still relevant now, in 2023. It doesn't seem all that long ago that the world watched with bated breath the Soviet Union and the United States sign the international treaties on nuclear disarmament: INF Treaty, START-1 and START-2. It has been 30 years since the last of the treaties was signed, but the world has, perhaps for the first time since the early 1960s, spiraled back to a point where the real nuclear threat is clearly visible," the deputy minister said.

"Belarus is convinced that in order to avoid nuclear war the world needs an international architecture with a fair system of security guarantees that would take into account the legitimate interests and concerns of all states, small and large, nuclear and non-nuclear, without exception," Yuri Ambrazevich continued. “The January 2022 joint statement by the leaders of the five nuclear-weapon states on the prevention of nuclear war was a step in the right direction. However, we have to admit that this event was rather an exception to the negative trend of growing security erosion in Europe and the world. This trend is matched by the 20-year stagnation in the Conference on Disarmament and the almost complete paralysis of other disarmament forums and treaties."

Yuri Ambrazevich believes that the long-term disregard by some countries for the legitimate interests and concerns of other countries in the field of security was the main reason for the situation in nuclear disarmament to return back to the starting point of confrontation.

"Can Belarus feel safe and secure when the United States and the UK, that provided security assurances to Belarus under the Budapest Memorandum for its renunciation of USSR nuclear weapons, have grossly violated it and continue to violate it to this day. The United States, the UK and their NATO allies from the EU have imposed an unprecedented number of economic bans and restrictions against Belarus. They have stopped direct air communication with our country, stopped trade and transit of many goods, complicated or made financial transactions impossible," Yuri Ambrazevich said. “In the neighboring countries, NATO has been building new military formations on the borders with Belarus for several years. Poland is training militants for a violent change of power in Minsk.”

Yuri Ambrazevich noted that global news media have launched a smear campaign against Belarus. "The BBC, CNN and Euronews churn out fake news about Belarus’ using illegal migrants as a weapon against its western neighbors hammering them into people's minds.

People flee the countries in the wake of wars and economic devastation created with the help of all-powerful democracies. They flee through Belarus to the EU for a better life, but Lithuanian and Polish border guards push them back to us, or even kill them right at the border. They accuse us of not stopping these people in their desire to get to Germany. But in recent months, some EU politicians have surpassed even these absurd and groundless speculations. Now they accuse Belarus of forcibly removing Ukrainian children from the territories located in the zone of armed conflict.

Several hundred children from Donbass have come to Belarus for organized voluntary holidays in Belarusian summer recreation camps in a forest and on a lake, with multiple meals and medical care, with chaperones and all documents. They have returned home to Donbass, which has been shown on TV in prime time. But they present this as ‘forcible illegal deportation of children from the occupied regions of Ukraine’," Yuri Ambrazevich added.

"All this is done for the sake of one goal: to destroy the alliance of Belarus and Russia, to weaken Moscow and take control of an additional 600km from West to East between NATO and Russia," he said.



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