Makei blames West for bloodshed in Ukraine

The Belarusian Foreign Minister put the blame for the bloodshed in Ukraine on the collective West. He said that at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly.

The head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry compared the situation in the world after the West's "victory" in the Cold War with the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, when the victorious side decided to virtually "crush" the opponent.

At the same time, the Cold War ended not even with a formal treaty, but with some "gentlemen's agreements" and declarations. "As subsequent events have shown, these agreements were not respected by the so-called 'victorious' side and, in fact, they are nothing less than 'Versailles 2.0," the minister said.

According to him, the West selfishly offered the post-Soviet states only one way - the way of their satellites. To consolidate this status, it staked on the expansion of one of the key institutions of the Cold War - the NATO military bloc. NATO's eastward expansion was done in defiance of agreements reached with the West, including those with Soviet leaders. The legitimate security interests of both Russia and Belarus were ignored. Through the expansion of NATO, the West violated the most important principle of the indivisibility of security, which states that the security of one side cannot be provided at the expense of the security of the other side.

Moreover, NATO's involvement in the illegitimate wars against Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria, as well as the alliance's attempts to enter the historic East Slavic and adjacent lands, predetermined for Versailles 2.0 the fate of the first Versailles.

"Therefore, the collective West must bear full blame for the ongoing bloodshed in Ukraine. It was the West that made this conflict inevitable - not only by its decision to expand NATO, but also by its refusal to consider the proposals of its opponents. And yet, there were such proposals," concluded Vladimir Makei.