Belarus President delivered his annual address to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko delivered his annual address to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly.Among the many topics, the President touched upon the current international situation and the place of Belarus in the world today. The world is being globalized, the degree of interdependence between states is growing steadily. Global challenges and threats affect absolutely all states without exception, including Belarus. Even if they originated thousands of kilometers from the Belarusian borders, the Head of State noted:

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Belarus is located in the very center of Europe and is a full-fledged participant of all major international processes. The country is linked by strong trade and economic ties with all regions of the world. That is why we must consider the current situation in the context of international relations. It is obvious to us that the world is becoming more unstable and unpredictable. To what extent, no one today can predict. Fundamental contradictions between states and blocs accumulated over the past decades are turning into actual conflicts. Not one of the most important international problems has been resolved as of late.The pandemic has exposed all the systemic problems. It has actually become a cover for the unceremonious realization by the main world players of their foreign policies, trade and economic ambitions.

The President also pointed out confrontation on all fronts between the world's largest economies, the United States and China, with the European Union and Russia being drawn into it as well.According to the President, the world plunged into the chaos of trade wars, national protectionism, political and information confrontation. Integration structures are going through a systemic crisis. Tensions in the military sphere are growing, and international legal and multilateral political instruments for settlement have actually become an anachronism and are not taken into account by anyone.In this context, the President drew attention to the fact that today Belarus is located on this geopolitical rift, living with its own mind, it turned out to be the only calm place in the center of Eurasia.