Belarusian FM: Global Majority projects aim to build international community of common destiny

The projects of the Global Majority are aimed at forming an international community with a common future for the entire planet rather than the so-called "golden billion", Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov said at the general debate of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, BelTA has learned. "Free countries of the Global South do not accept sanctions, interference in their internal affairs and the ‘democratization’ forced on them. They want to develop on the basis of their own historical traditions, their understanding of the world and, most importantly, in the interests of their peoples. Today it is already the Global Majority, where new ideas and new projects are springing up. By the way, they are strictly peaceful, in the interests of the entire world community, aimed against no one," the minister said. According to him, these are Chinese initiatives Belt and Road and the global development initiative put forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping initiatives in the field of global security and global civilization. This is the Belarusian-Russian idea of the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st century. This is the Indian initiative of the Global South, and many others. "To one degree or another, all these projects are aimed at forming an international community with a common future for the entire planet, rather than the so-called ‘golden billion’. After all, we have one planet, in all its diversity, which enriches us all. This is our way too. The path of our President Aleksandr Lukashenko and our people. Which is based on respect, trust, sincerity, reliability and responsibility," the minister said. He noted that Belarus responded to the latest package of illegal sanctions with openness and visa waiver for citizens of all EU countries. As a result, thousands of EU citizens have already taken advantage of this, visited Belarus and were not disappointed. "They did not see dictatorship anywhere," the minister stressed. According to him, if more trust were placed in the UN today, most global peace initiatives would be born within the Organization itself, not outside it. The world would not be threatened with a renewed split into political and economic blocs.