External players purposefully turn the post-Soviet space into a theater of hybrid war – Wolfovich

State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Wolfovich made a report at the 14th meeting of secretaries of the security councils of the CIS member states, which takes place on November 9 in Moscow. The current deep crisis provokes the reformatting of the geopolitical space, turning the CIS region into the epicenter of new security challenges, he said.

As the main trend of the current period, Alexander Volfovich called the return of the force factor to international relations. Some world players have switched to open fierce competition, promotion and realization of national interests while ignoring the priority of global problems and universal principles of international law, the State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus said.

- As a result, the nature of external destructive influence on the CIS countries is changing. External players purposefully turn the post-Soviet space into a so-called “gray zone” – a theater of hybrid war aimed at undermining integration processes in the Commonwealth space and reformatting the foreign policy of our countries.

The State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus called the evolution of cyber threats and the transformation of extremist activity important factors affecting security in the current period. Concrete, tangible contours acquire military danger, the Secretary continued.

- Forced militarization in the West in the interests of military superiority is no longer even covered up. Officials are openly talking about preparing for a potential war. As an ideological basis for this policy, speculation about an imaginary military threat from the East is used. Aware of the illusory nature of this danger, Western policymakers are shifting their focus to so-called hybrid threats. Belarus is a clear testing ground for such a strategy, which daily feels this kind of impact. They are trying to expose Minsk as a source of “hybrid attacks,” Aleksandr Wolfovich specified.

Such fake accusations of Minsk are used to justify pressure, from sanctions and closure of borders to militarization of states.

- The key here is the development of the budgets of NATO and the EU. This is already a purposeful business of obtaining additional external appropriations for military needs. It’s also a great way to cover up your own internal problems. This is especially vivid and natural in the context of electoral campaigns, added Alexander Wolfovich.

He once again outlined the tasks of Belarus: preventing escalation of the situation and preventing unintended incidents. Belarus consistently adheres to a peace-loving policy, providing support for humanitarian contacts between the parties, Alexander Volfovich concluded.

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