MINSK, 21 April (BelTA) – Belarus can and should play a more active and important role in global politics, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said in his State of the Nation Address on 21 April, BelTA has learned.
The President stressed that it is not the main goal of Belarus to play a more active and important role in global politics. “Global powers demand it from us sometimes,” Alexander Lukashenko said.
“At present Belarus is the pillar of security in the region. There are no religious or ethnic conflicts in Belarus. We have never created and do not create problems for our neighbors. And we will never create problems,” the head of state guaranteed and added that the multi-vector foreign policy has been and still is a major principle of Belarus.