Ryzhenkov: impartial international organisation capable of guaranteeing balance in the world needed

A strong and impartial universal international organisation is needed which would be capable of guaranteeing a balance in the world where no country or bloc of countries will be able to bring the UN tools to heels to please their selfishness and to the detriment of the international majority – as stated by Belarus’ Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov in his speech at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly

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“We are all used to third-rate fiction and YouTube videos. They are fast and useless, and thus we are being accustomed to an uncomplicated style of obtaining information. They are forcing us to forget the truths that many famous humanists and writers talked about,” the Foreign Minister stressed.

Mr. Ryzhenkov turned to three Western writers to draw some parallels with modern events. He quoted a text from Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry: ‘The little opéra-bouffe nations play at government and intrigue until some day a big, silent gunboat glides into the offing and warns them not to break their toys’. It’s an American boat…

The diplomat also read out a quote from Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, mentioning a CIA officer under the cover of the US Embassy in Vietnam who was looking for a third force to stage a coup in this state through a series of terrorist attacks and to bring forces loyal to America to power. The Foreign Minister also mentioned Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country), who could not understand why the United States and the United Kingdom needed to demolish the city of Dresden with carpet bombing at the very end of World War II, when everything was already clear, burying more than a hundred thousand old people, children and women under the rubble. “We know [why it was done]: to intimidate for the future,” Mr. Ryzhenkov noted.

The Foreign Minister added that this is very similar to what we observe now around the world, including ‘the third force, provocations, and a conditional American boat – though bigger, and even more than one’. “That is why a strong and impartial universal international organisation is needed which would be capable of guaranteeing balance in the world where no country or bloc of countries will be able to bring the UN tools to heels to please their selfishness and to the detriment of the world majority. A strong organisation would not allow Ukraine to ‘fight to the last Ukrainian’ for the sake of transnational capital and in the interests of the collective West. If everyone, like neighbouring Belarus, realised what is really happening in the conflict zone and what such development of events may lead to, if everyone really wanted to stop the bloody confrontation between the two fraternal peoples, then Ukraine would long have been with Russia not on the battlefield, but at the peace negotiation table,” he stressed.

In this context, initiatives like the Brazilian-Chinese Peace Plan are very timely, and Mr. Ryzhenkov noted, “However, no project will be successful without Russia's participation. There cannot be a new security architecture in our region without the participation of Belarus as well.”