BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

16/10/2008

New treaty on European security is needed, president of Belarus says

After the Georgian-S.Ossetian conflict it became clear that a new treaty on European security is badly needed, President Alexander Lukashenko said at a session of the Security Council of Belarus on October 16, reproted Belta.

"The architecture of global and European security has failed. The recent developments in the Caucasus were an indisputable proof of it," he said.

According to Alexander Lukashenko, the Security Council will have to determine the place and role of the country in the system of European and regional security as it is necessitated by the dynamics of international life.

"The efficiency of the international system of control over armaments and nonproliferation has been undermined in many things. We can say there is no system as such. An example is the fate of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe." The Belarusian head of state also reminded the participants that the Treaty on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms between the USA and Russia expires in 2009. A new similar agreement is not even in the pipeline.

"The world is on the verge of invention of brand new types of weapons including WMD," Alexander Lukashenko said. Therefore Belarus brings an initiative to give non-nuclear states legally-binding security guarantees, the President said.

According to the Head of State, the power balance in Europe has been disturbed, and not through Belarus' fault. The US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty and the deployment of the anti-missile defence in the Czech Republic and Poland has heightened the tension. "NATO eastward expansion has become a tendency. The facts are the following: NATO military infrastructure has gained a footing near the Belarusian border. American military bases have been moved into Eastern European countries, the offensive potential of the bloc has been increasing," the President said. Alexander Lukashenko reminded that on the agenda is Ukraine's accession to NATO. This process is being feverishly pushed.

The President said that unfortunately the Russian proposals supported by Belarus to sign a new agreement on European security have not brought any serious response in the West.

"We should take into account these realities, first of all, in order to strengthen the state and ensure security," the Belarusian leader said. Alexander Lukashenko added that the session of the Security Council is set to consider the issues related to the creation of the Union State Anti-Aircraft Defence System on the western borders as well as crucial economic issues.

Source:

http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1321854&lang=EN

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