Opening of the Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting

The idea to launch a new international negotiating process is gaining more supporters, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said at the opening of the Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting in Minsk on 31 October.

The head of state recalled that Belarus proposed the idea of a new Helsinki process at the opening of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly summer session in Minsk in July of last year. “Then some said that Belarus was too naive to put forward such a proposal. Some hinted that it was not Belarus’ business. Some even interpreted the Belarusian initiative as a proposal to revise the existing regional security system, which, by the way, does not work. I would like to stress that we have never suggested derailing anything. Today, we see that the idea is gaining more supporters,” the head of state noted.