Ryzhenkov: the erosion of international law and the crisis of UN institutions is the first issue of international security

On November 10, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov delivered a keynote speech at the plenary session of the International Forum for Collective Security in Moscow. As noted by the head of the foreign Ministry, the entire current situation in the world shows the birth of a new fair world order, writes sb.by.

Forming this new world order, the states of the global majority must clearly understand the global risks and challenges posed primarily by Western countries. In this context, Maxim Ryzhenkov identified the erosion of international law and the crisis of universal multilateral UN institutions as the main problem of our time.

- They were designed to ensure collective security on the basis of international law. But today, in fact, we see instead the encouragement of actions that represent the right of the strong in resolving any issues that arise between states today.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus declared that taking into account this position of the UN, it is noticeable how many countries of the world are beginning to gravitate towards regional organizations such as the CSTO, the EAU, the SCO and others. Because within these blocks it becomes possible to develop a certain answer to the challenges of reality.

- We need to think about how to strengthen the monolithic nature of our organizations, despite all the differentiation of political and economic approaches, and how to strengthen collective solidarity on key issues on the international agenda, given that many of the countries that are members of the above organizations have different priorities in building foreign policy and military policy. So, we see it as our task to get closer to the fact that we act more as a united front and support each other more, despite some of our relations or our, relatively speaking, obligations towards third partners, added Maxim Ryzhenkov.

He expressed regret that a number of Eurasian countries are pursuing a policy of self-isolation from solving global problems of our time, which does not allow them to be involved in the process of forming a new security of the continent.

- At the same time, such rather crisis processes that are taking place in Europe today will sooner or later force the European Union countries to turn to our common topic, a common approach to a large region, the Belarusian Foreign Minister predicted.

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