Expert talked about Lukashenko’s statements at CSTO summit

At the regular CSTO Collective Security Council session that took place in Astana last week, the President of Belarus demonstrated once again that our country is fully committed to developing that military-political organisation. Aleksandr Lukashenko pointed out that the global situation is deteriorating every year, international law principles are being replaced with subjective and opportunistic rules, tools for military and information blackmail. The arms race is gaining steam. The Belarusian leader believes that the CSTO should become a military-political cornerstone of the emerging Eurasian security architecture within the new foreign policy paradigm, and set the trend for the entire regional development agenda.
Olga Lazorkina, an analyst at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research (BISR) reminded that it’s not the first time the global community is asking how just our world is and is each country really an equally valued part of it.

“The answers to that are obvious. It’s getting markedly worse in multiple areas. The information space has a well-entrenched term ‘the golden billion’, there are closed elite clubs like G7, forums like the Davos to dictate how an economy should be run, lots of other formats. Today, we have to make it clear: are we here just to ask some questions again, or do we really want to make international relations qualitatively different? Fortunately for our country, the majority of nations realise that the world is not going to survive World War Three,” the expert said.

According to her, the 2nd International Conference on Eurasian Security in Minsk demonstrated the extent of escalation concerns and persistent efforts made by people from different countries to resolve the situation; how necessary it is to talk and develop steps for peaceful co-existence, instead of hiding behind walls.

Multipolarity for Belarus is not just a political science term, it’s the basis for our country’s development and broader security. The word opening the modern political vocabulary, in our opinion, should be not exceptionalism, but equality. We should strive to preserve, expand and develop, not to destroy and cancel.

The process of learning from the past has started, and it’s important to see it to its conclusion, the analyst believes.

“History shows that no country is a perfect model that should be emulated at all cost. We all have our highs and lows. But the future belongs to those who can get up and keep moving forward,” she concluded.