UN Security Council consultations on Belarus are an old Goebbels trick, Foreign Ministry states
Belarus’ Foreign Ministry has commented on the holding of closed consultations of the UN Security Council on the issue of refugees on Belarus’ western borders. The comment of the Foreign Ministry’s press secretary, Anatoly Glaz, is posted on the Foreign Ministry’s website
At the initiative of France, Estonia and Ireland, closed consultations of the UN Security Council were held. The Other Issues agenda item focused on the situation with refugees near the western borders of Belarus. The initiators’ positions are clear. How does Belarus’ Foreign Ministry view this meeting?
Anatoly Glaz stated, “The European Union and the United States acted as initiators. The point of this artificially staged event was to once again create a newsbreak for groundless accusations against Belarus. It is an old Goebbels propaganda trick: if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. Unfortunately, we observe now the theatre of the absurd. The countries of the European Union, the most powerful NATO bloc, are trying to stage a cheap play about relatively small and completely tolerant Belarus that is allegedly posing a threat to the world – demonstrating the country as an aggressor. For obvious reasons, they are trying to distort and neglect the obvious fact: the global migration crisis is rooted in the illegal interference of western countries in the internal affairs of others, organisation of military interventions and their destruction of a number of states. In this situation, Belarus is simply a transit country which, by the way, bears significant costs. In 2020, the EU accepted half a million new refugees, and no one really noticed any political consequences. Meanwhile, two or three thousand refugees seeking to get through Belarus to Europe – which has invited them – create ‘a hybrid war’.”
Clearly, the tension on the Belarus-EU border is not so much related to real problems that three thousand refugees can create, but to the fact that it is profitable for Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to inflate this crisis. Especially this refers to Poland, Mr. Glaz emphasised.
"Therefore, the consultations, as I have already said, were predictably completely staged," the press secretary noted. “Importantly, none of the other members of the Security Council beyond the Western group supported the initiators and criticised our country. On the contrary, the states quite logically raised the question of the need to take a comprehensive look at the problem, to combat the root causes of the migration crisis, to conduct a direct dialogue between the countries of origin, transit and final destination. If this event will be used by the European Union as an additional argument for introduction of another package of sanctions, I would like to say that Minsk is ready to take the toughest retaliatory measures.”
