Lukashenko: The CSTO must guide the entire regional security agenda

In a speech at the CSTO Council meeting, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko commented on the absence of the Armenian side from the event.

“Today, I have the honor to speak first, as our Armenian colleagues are not participating in the meeting. By the way, this reflects the current geopolitical situation in the region and to some extent in our organization,” the Belarusian president noted.

Lukashenko stated that Europe and the world, in general, are being NATO-ized.

“We can see that the situation in the world is only worsening year by year. The thing is not even that the system of counterbalances ensuring international security and strategic stability has been forgotten. We have been spending an unforgivably long time creating alternative legal mechanisms,” the Belarusian leader noted.

According to him, the West is expending all its energy to fight against the false problems it has created, “while in the modern world, there are numerous transnational challenges and threats that can and must be addressed only together.”

Lukashenko noted that the CSTO should become one of the geopolitical pillars of Eurasia and guide the entire regional security agenda.

“The key to solving the existing problems and creating effective security mechanisms lies in our Eurasia, with its millennia of experience in the coexistence of different peoples and the crossover of cultures and civilizations,” the Belarusian president concluded.