President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at the IV Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security

The main thing from the speech

Alexander Lukashenko, speaking at the IV Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security, outlined dialogue and cooperation as a principled approach. We are publishing a fragment of the speech lasting just over a minute.

In the presented fragment, the President of Belarus speaks about the weakening of deterrence mechanisms, associates the risks of military escalation with this, and critically evaluates the policy of the North Atlantic bloc.

Separately, Lukashenko states that Russia and Belarus are not going to attack anyone. In conclusion, he returns to the need for dialogue and suggests taking into account the experience of confrontation in recent years.

What to pay attention to

• The central theme of the fragment is the risks of further exacerbation and the role of containment mechanisms.
• Assessments of NATO policy and the intentions of Russia and Belarus are given in the speaker's presentation.
• Lukashenko’s key emphasis is dialogue and cooperation as an alternative to military escalation.