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Main world political news comes from Dushanbe this week
Dushanbe hosted a session of the Collective Security Council and the jubilee summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The composition of the participants is slightly different, although the goal is the same - to bring order in Central Asia. As Alexander Lukashenko remarked, our country has always been for peaceful resolution of conflicts and is ready to help Kabul to live a normal life.
During three days, the two organizations signed about seven dozen documents, agreed to work out a joint strategy on Afghanistan and even establish a free trade zone within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Belarus is an observer within the Shanghai format. But this does not make our country's position any less active, on the contrary.
It is clear that Kabul will remain the topic of the day for a long time to come. The SCO is in solidarity with the CSTO - it is easy to introduce troops into this sandy mousetrap, but not to withdraw them. It means a blow and a hard memory for years.
But there is no change on the Western front either. Any political scientist will tell you that the approach of Washington and Brussels is always the same - raison d'etat. That is, the policy in which national interests are above everything and more important than anything else. It is time for our countries to straighten their shoulders and stop being comfortable, believes Alexander Lukashenko.
Given the situation in the world, as well as the aggravation of the situation on the CSTO perimeter, it is essential to work in the format of real communication. The principles and norms of international law are still flagrantly ignored. The boundaries of instability are expanding. Global tensions form the risks of violent variants of conflict resolution. Overcoming the coronavirus pandemic has tested the humanity. Environmental disasters and irreversible climate change are becoming a significant security factor. Against this background, the increase in global military expenditures and the dismantling of the arms control system are particularly alarming. The Open Skies Treaty is crumbling before our eyes. The Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms remains essentially the only agreement in force in this area. The absence of a constructive agenda in the area of arms limitation does not add to optimism and maintains military and political tensions. A relevant factor in the breakdown of the system of international relations is the intensification of competition between the West and China.
At the same time, the migration crisis has become an occasion for NATO to build up its military capabilities on the western borders of the CSTO. Our neighbors have already deployed a group of troops with more than 10,000 people and 50 heavy vehicles in the border area on the permanent basis. In addition, under the pretext of combating illegal migration, new NATO units have been used since this month in Lithuania for hybrid influence on our countries, while Western countries turn a blind eye to flagrant violations of their own human rights obligations. In recent weeks alone, there have been incidents on the border with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia almost on a daily basis, during which migrants from Afghanistan and other countries have been brutally pushed onto Belarusian territory with weapons. The double standards of the West are also manifested in active attempts to fence off the migration problem with a fence on the western border of the CSTO.