The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus says that the efforts both of Belarus and the West should be focused on negotiations which will allow to solve the conflicts between official Minsk and official countries despite the current issues.
“Both sides have their blames. The point is, however, that they may be overcome only at a round table and only in the frameworks of a constructive cooperation. I think we need to concentrate our attention on this,” Andrej Savinykh, press secretary of the ministry told at a briefing on Thursday.
Savinykh highlighted the human rights issues as human rights have long been used by the West to impose its economic and political interests. “In this context the subjectivity of European countries’ opinions causes serious issues,” Andrej Savinykh said.
“Secondly, the differences of the approaches to the development of civil society in Belarus are a system issue.”
Savinykh accepted the importance of civil society and democracy, but called on the West not to hurry with this.
“We absolutely agree with the EU in the understanding of the need to develop a full-fledged civil society and democratic traditions.
“We realize that time and favorable civil environment based on trust and harmonization of interests of major social group is required for this. This is the way the transition in the West,” Savinykh noted.
He shared the fears that forcing the democratic transition may cause revolution changes. According to Andrej Savinykh, western politicians demand introducing the standards at once “while ignoring economic, social unrest and disproportions which will inevitably arise if the process is artificially accelerated.”
Savinykh referred to the “experience of many states” and argued that “artificial social experiments have never been a success.”
The press secretary also assured that this thesis was fully recognised by western scholars yet it “is concealed of distorted by western politicians.”
Furthermore, Savinykh sharply criticised Poland and Sweden: the two countries which invented the Eastern Partnership programme and also have a big influence on the EU’s policy in East Europe.
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