Belarus: We do not want our continent to be the object of someone else’s geopolitical game

The past has clearly demonstrated that solutions for Eurasia, invented and imposed from the outside, do not take root. This opinion was voiced by Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Secreta in an interview with the Hungarian Internet portal Moszkvater, the text of which is published on the website of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.

The Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus stressed:

- We do not want our continent to be the object of another’s geopolitical game. We want the Eurasian states to determine their own destiny. The past has clearly demonstrated that solutions for Eurasia, invented and imposed from the outside, do not take root. They do not take into account our realities, our interests, our civilizational specificity and diversity.

As an example, Igor Secreta cited US attempts to control Eurasia:

The United States is trying to control Eurasia, that is, the “heartland” according to Mackinder’s theory. It's a historical fact. But Americans do this largely through “Rimland” – a concept that was described by another theorist of the first half of the XX century, Nicholas Spikeman. "Rimland" includes states on the "fringes" of Eurasia - continental Europe, Great Britain, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines. Mackinder's theories of "heartland" and Spikeman's theories of "Rimland" formed the basis of American geostrategy after World War II. Brzezinski, in his famous 1997 article, “Geostrategy for Eurasia,” wrote bluntly that the US must dominate and control Eurasia in order to maintain its global supremacy.

The Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus stressed that the idea of the Eurasian Charter represents an opportunity to consolidate Eurasia, so that both Rimland and Heartland work together in the interests of themselves, and not an external player.

That is our principled position. Secreta told which countries can join the Eurasian Charter