Rybakov: we’ll continue to actively liaise with UN and promote our national interests
The United Nations Organisation is not a secretary general or international officials, but 193 states, including Belarus. Our country will continue to actively co-operate with the UN and promote our national interests – as Belarus’ Permanent Representative to the UN Valentin Rybakov told journalists after his report to President Aleksandr Lukashenko.
Valentin Rybakov recalled that Belarus was among the fifty founding countries of the UN, and noted that the organisation has been criticised since its foundation, “There’re reasons to criticise it for bureaucracy, slowness in decision-making, excessive politicisation, for what the President said at the meeting: when officials and employees of the UN Secretariat – who must be impartial and not take sides – engage in politicking in certain conflicts. We’re liaising with member states. This is our main task. We have certain successes, though there are also difficulties with which we are heroically fighting.”
At the same time, Belarus’ Permanent Representative to the UN stressed, “This is a unique international platform. The uniqueness lies in the fact that this is the only platform where almost all the states of the world are represented. This is its value.”
During the meeting, the Head of State gave a number of instructions to intensify the work of the Permanent Mission of Belarus to the UN.
“We’ll continue to do it. There are a number of areas where we are very successful. Some of these areas originated after the speech of the President of Belarus [at the UN Summit on Sustainable Development in 2015], e.g., the issue of combating human trafficking. We will continue to work actively, co-operate with states and promote our national interests,” assured Valentin Rybakov.
