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Belarus urges UN countries to organize global dialogue on security

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MINSK, 24 September (BelTA) – Belarus deems it important to organize a global dialogue on security in the true spirit of San Francisco. Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxim Ryzhenkov made the statement as he participated in a summit on a sustainable, inclusive and resilient global economy in New York, USA, BelTA has learned. The summit is a major new event focusing on financing the Sustainable Development Goals.

Maxim Ryzhenkov stated that international cooperation in implementing the 2030 Agenda is not reassuring. But why are countries in this situation?

The minister quoted Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko as saying in the UN in 2015: “Sustainable development is impossible without peace”. According to Maxim Ryzhenkov, these words explain everything and offer guidance for action at the same time.

“Indeed, for the last three decades countries of the West have been doing everything they could to shore up their disappearing hegemony and to dominate by infringing interests of countries of the global majority. The creation of armed conflicts, the provoking of color revolutions, and the nursing of the flame of war in a number of regions across the globe are concrete manifestations of the corresponding actions. What are all of us supposed to do? In the political dimension it is necessary to stop and reverse the negative trends in global politics. We believe the organization of a global dialogue on security in the true San Francisco spirit to be instrumental in this regard. Belarus mentioned the need to organize the dialogue back in 2017. We are deeply convinced that sooner or later such a dialogue will start: life itself will make it happen!” Maxim Ryzhenkov stressed.

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