MP: our strength lies in our country’s never changing its vector of international co-operation

Belarus has always pursued a multi-vector foreign policy, but this does not mean that our country will follow everyone’s lead – as noted by deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly Oleg Gaidukevich during his talk with Alfa Radio

Programme host Polina Konoga noted that Belarus has always sought to build good-neighbourly relations with everyone, but today the West has shown what it is like.

“Our strength is that we have never changed the vector of international co-operation. Nothing has changed, and we will continue to pursue a multi-vector policy. But speaking of multi-vector politics, we do not mean that we want to be in political relations with everyone and listen to everyone. We have always built an alliance with Russia. We have always said that we want to be a sovereign, independent country. Speaking of multi-vector policy, we always had one thing in mind: we want to have normal, peaceful relations with everyone, we don’t want to conflict with anyone, we don’t want to interfere in anyone’s affairs. We want to sell, buy and do what is beneficial to our country. Today we also do not threaten anyone and are not going to attack anyone. We are not going to interfere in the internal political affairs of any country,” said Oleg Gaidukevich.

At the same time, the deputy added that today Belarus has become more rigid in defending its national interests.

The MP stressed that the West expected that after the imposition of sanctions, Belarus would have to look for new partners and develop relations with them from scratch, which would take more than one year. But, according to the expert, our President has worked for many years to build friendly relations with China and African countries.

“Now we just strengthened it all, but we didn’t start from scratch. When the President recently flew to Africa, he appeared there as a friend who is known and respected because he paid attention to it for many years. The fact that we are now starting to supply our products to China more actively, giving a new impetus to the development of these relations is not a year of work. The Chinese don’t work like that. In order to gain authority there, decades must pass,” the deputy said.