Everyone likes butterflies. Children love to catch them, often unaware that even gently touching their wings can injure the butterflies or deprive them of the ability to fly. There are people among us known as butterfly people. There are more than half a million of them in the world. In Belarus, for…
The Republic of Belarus has been a consistent advocate of the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation processes. The contribution that Belarus has made to global nuclear disarmament is clear and indisputable, and its significance has been repeatedly affirmed in numerous documents agreed at bilater…
For many years now, Western countries have been waging a large-scale political, economic and information war against the Republic of Belarus. Economic terrorism is being used, including the imposition of numerous sanctions to economically strangle our country and its people, in violation of the Char…
On the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the Collective Security Treaty and the twentieth anniversary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) itself, we consider the discussion of the topic of cooperation between the United Nations and the CSTO to be very relevant.
In recent years, …
The Republic of Belarus continues to maintain its consistent and principled position that it is unacceptable to resolve any conflict by force. Having made significant efforts to settle the conflict in Ukraine, our country remains ready to do everything possible to restore dialogue and mutual underst…
I have the honour to introduce the pre-recorded statement of His Excellency Mr. Vladimir Makei, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus.
A pre-recorded video statement was shown in the General Assembly Hall (see annex 11 and /76/569).
Belarus is categorically against unilateral coercive measures against States Members of the United Nations. We consider the pressure put on States with such measures to be direct interference into the internal affairs of sovereign States. The application of unilateral, coercive measures is a blatant…
I have the honour of reading a statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Mr. Vladimir Makei.
“Today the international community marks International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day, proclaimed by the United Nations.
“It has been 35 years since the moment when the ancient Slavic w…
Belarus is closely monitoring the situation in Ukraine. We have consistently stated that peace and harmony throughout the territory of Ukraine are of paramount and strategic importance for Belarus. We are seriously troubled by the recent aggravation of the tensions in the south-east. No effort shoul…
It is a great honour for me to introduce draft resolution A/74/L.30, environmenttitled “Persistent legacy of the Chernobyl disaster”, for the General Assembly’s consideration. I would like to thank the delegations that participated in the consultations on the text of the draft resolution and to note…
The Security Council must meet the current requirements and reflect the increasing diversity in international relations. Today’s world requires that and it is necessary for the effective work of the United Nations in maintaining international peace and security.
Belarus fully supports the need to a…
On behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Belarus, I would like to pay tribute to the memory of Mr. Yukiya Amano, the late Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and express my sincere gratitude for his significant contribution to the work of the Agency and his effor…
With all protocol requirements met, I would like to associate myself with the statement made by the representative of Algeria on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
We congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Ghana and Slovakia on their appointment as co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Worki…
Belarus considers all unilateral measures to put pressure on a sovereign State member of the United Nations to be unacceptable. Any such measure imposed without a relevant resolution of the Security Council represents not only a direct violation of the norms and principles of international law, unde…
The Human Rights Council (HRC) is an important body in the international architecture of human rights institutions. In accordance with its mandate, its job is to address real issues of human rights that have a serious impact on the quality of people’s lives and to help to strengthen States’ capaciti…
Preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS is a national health-care priority for the Republic of Belarus, reflected in our Government programme on the health and demographic safety of the people of the Republic of Belarus for the period from 2016 to 2020. We are fully committed to the Political Declaration …
Belarus welcomes the establishment of the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace, which we are celebrating for the first time today, thanks in part to the efforts of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. The inclusion of this date in the international calendar is deeply signif…
The International Labour Organization (ILO) was established in the wake of the First World War, along with several others that we often call the first generation of international organizations. Many of them did not survive the next war, but the ILO did. This fact attests to the lasting vision and fo…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his very thorough report on strengthening the global framework for leveraging sport for development and peace (A/73/325).
Belarus was very pleased to join as a co-sponsor of draft resolution A/73/L.36, entitled “Sport as an enabler of sustainable dev…
