🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko (Minsk, October 26, 2023)

💬 Thank you very much for the invitation and the idea of holding the High-level International Conference Eurasian Security: Reality and Prospects in a Transforming World.

It is especially important now when Europe, as dictated by the Americans, decided to divide our united, large and rich in mineral resources continent, which was given to us by God and history, into two camps.

👉 This happened before, during the Soviet era and the Cold War, but even then our economic ties were not severed. Today, Europe is suffering direct losses because of Washington’s pressure.

Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergey Aleinik mentioned our readiness to cooperate with everyone but only as equal and honest partners. Foreign Minister Szijjarto said the same.

I pointed out that we hold the door to these processes open to everyone. But if Europe prefers to shut itself off, we will have to move from the division of labour to independent and sovereign production of everything we need for development and security.

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