The President of Belarus has warned this Thursday that the expansion of NATO to the Nordic countries “has put the world on the brink of a global conflict”, when, in his opinion, “a new system of international relations” is necessary to reconsider The role of the current powers.
Alexander Lukashenko, who reappeared this week after speculation about a possible worsening of his health, attacked the West again in a speech in which he accused “some countries” -in an apparent allusion to Ukraine- of becoming “testing grounds” both for the destruction of the “old weapons” of the West, as well as the new weapons.
Finland’s recent entry into NATO and Sweden’s application for membership are, for Lukashenko, cause for concern, insofar as they imply the consolidation of the Atlantic Alliance in areas close not only to Belarus, but also to Russia and all the countries of the region.
“We must concentrate our efforts on forming a new system of international relations,” the Belarusian president told a delegation of members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, according to the official Belta news agency.
In this sense, the Belarusian head of state defended “universally recognized norms” and not those that “the West tries to impose.”
Lukashenko became an important political and military ally of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, after the start of the military offensive in Ukraine in February 2022.
Last week, the Belarusian president took part in celebrations for Victory Day over the Nazis in World War II – which Russia celebrates on May 9 – in Moscow.
Source: TSF
