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Belarus advocates resolving conflicts through negotiations only

MINSK, 13 December (BelTA) - Belarus has consistently advocated resolving all contentious issues in security through negotiation as the only way, chairman of the board of the Center for Foreign Policy and Security Studies Andrei Rusakovich said at the international workshop “International security and NATO in 2018” in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

“The forum has become traditional. It has gained the reputation of a professional event to discuss topical issues on the international agenda. The themes that come into the spotlight of the workshop are varied. Yet international security always remains central to its agenda,” Andrei Rusakovich noted.

Assessments of the situation in security are many and varied. “For example, there is a view that the planet is on the brink of global conflict, almost the third world war. Other politicians and experts argue that the situation is not unusual. They say that what we see is a quite complex and ambiguous process of global rebalancing and modernization typical for the history of humanity,” he added.

Andrei Rusakovich stressed, the world is in search of a new formula for security. “Here I would like to note that all members of the international community must come to realize one thing, namely the need for a fundamentally new security philosophy. At the current level of weapons development, it is obvious that there will be no winners in the escalation of confrontation and possible military conflict. All will lose, above all, people. Therefore, it is the interests of people, who are the central subject of relations, should be placed at the center of the new security philosophy,” Andrei Rusakovich believes.  

Andrei Rusakovich highlighted Belarus’ ideas of the new Helsinki process; approaches aimed at making the Eastern European countries a transboundary belt of stability and cooperation; proposals to ensure peace in the south-east of Ukraine. It should be emphasized that it is a uniting non-confrontational policy that makes an essential part of the foreign policy identity of the Belarusian state,” he noted.

He thanked the co-organisers of the event:  NATO's Public Diplomacy Division, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and th eNATO contact point embassy which is the Estonian diplomatic mission.

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