On the speech of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Mr. Vladimir Makei at the UN in Geneva on global security
08.04.2019On April 8, 2019 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Mr. Vladimir Makei addressed the United Nations in Geneva on issues of global security.
The Foreign Minister of Belarus defined the international community’s inability to forge new rules for peaceful cooperation as a systemic flaw in global relations at this particular stage. The old system characterized by the concentrated power and the influence exerted by a handful of great powers has been increasingly degrading, while the irreversible political and economic ascendance of regional powers and their alliances serve to shape a new system..
Mr. Vladimir Makei urged the international community to launch without delay comprehensive multilateral negotiations with the view to overcoming multiple prevailing differences and building a new, more efficient, fair and operable world order, while noting that Minsk stands ready to be a convening place.
Furtheremore, Mr. Vladimir Makei called for strengthening the role of multilateral institutions and the UN system as a whole. Belarus believes that Geneva-based multilateral thematic organizations have already been making a decisive contribution to shaping a more harmonized and interdependent future world, which will have no place for using force for conflict resolution. It is thematic intergovernmental organizations focused on the implementation of the SDGs that must provide the basis for global thematic partnerships, which bring together states, international organizations, civil society, the private sector, as well as the academia and research community. Likewise, Belarus supports the viewpoint that it is these global partnerships that constitute the best tool for managing the emerging multipolar world order.
The discussion organized by the Permanent Mission of Belarus to the UN in Geneva also featured as panelists Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva Mr. Michael Møller, Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Ms. Renata Dwan and Head of the EU Delegation to the United Nations Office in Geneva Mr. Walter Stevens.
