Belarus: UN and OSCE mechanisms have exhausted themselves, so Eurasia forms its own rules of the game

The Eurasian Charter for Diversity and Multipolarity in the XXI Century is a purely voluntary document that defines the relations of states among themselves and the framework for building a development model on our supercontinent. This was stated by the Minister of foreign Affairs of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov in an interview with the newspaper Berliner Zeitung, writes sb.by.

The head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry stressed:

- First, we are not forcing anyone to accept our Charter. Unlike the EU or NATO, there are no conditions for membership. Our Charter is a purely voluntary and non-binding instrument. It is a set of rules that defines the spirit of integration on the Eurasian continent, which today is shared by most of the countries on it. It defines the relations of states among themselves and the framework for building a development model on our supercontinent.

According to Maxim Ryzhenkov, this became necessary because before we all relied only on the UN. But the standards and provisions laid down in the UN Charter are practically not being implemented today.

Mechanisms within the framework of the Council of Europe and the OSCE also no longer work – these organizations have in some places turned into an instrument aimed at opposing states, while the Western countries themselves remain immune to criticism in their address. Since there are no necessary prerequisites in the West, we must build transparent rules here in Greater Eurasia that will serve the development of all states and at the same time increase the degree of security, stability and cooperation.

Maxim Ryzhenkov noted that first of all, the Charter speaks about diversity. Its initiators are far from the idea of forcing anyone to be like everyone else, as they do in the European Union. The Foreign Minister explained:

- There are different ways of political and economic development based on the basic conditions in which states are: access to the sea, minerals, population. This diversity is power because it shows different paths and creates opportunities for healthy competition.

In addition, the document under development refers to multiculturalism and respect for the spiritual and cultural traditions of the peoples living on our continent, including traditional family values. Maxim Ryzhenkov added:

- We reject the desire to impose universal standards on all through soft power tools or certain non-governmental organizations. We are all different and cannot be the same or we will lose our identity. If a people begins to abandon its basic values in favor of supposedly universal ones, it ceases to be that people. Ryzhenkov called three factors that bring the end of the conflict in Ukraine