now to create something of your own. the art studio is headed by professional artist and art critic maria minich. based on the results of amateur experiments of project participants , exhibitions are held. the derzhinsky district library is a meeting place not only for book lovers, but also for artists, writers, local historians and historians. my colleagues will have more information at 15:00. with this i say goodbye to you, all the best.

hello, i am authorized to announce on the air of the sas program, i am the presenter nadezhda sas, i greet you. let me remind you that this is a program for those who want to better understand what is happening and understand how these processes, events, people will affect the life of the country of each of us. in today's program we will summarize the results of the year of foreign policy of the republic of belarus, as well as. let’s pay attention to forecasts for 2024, but first we’ll tell you about the main events in world politics this week. the self-proclaimed state of somaliland gave ethiopia the opportunity to establish a naval base on its territory in exchange for recognition as a sovereign state. january 1, ethiopian prime minister abi ahmet and somali president lenda musa bihi abdi entered into a memorandum of understanding to... ensure ethiopia's access to seaports

. it is with great pride that i announce a mutually beneficial agreement between somaliland and ethiopia in exchange for access to 20 km of sea coastline for the ethiopian navy on a 50-year lease. ethiopia is the first foreign country to officially recognize the republic of somaliland, said journalist and somaliland leader musabi khiabdi. somaliland occupies the northern part of the horn of africa. in 1990. this territory broke away from the civil war. state of somalia. by agreement with the separatists, ethiopia, which joined the brix on january 1, is returning access to the sea that was lost 30 years ago due to the separation of eritrea. the west has already suspected that the new military base in a strategically important region of the world will be used not only by ethiopians, but also by russians. some of the weapons that the us announced to kiev this week will be

delivered to ukraine later, the coordinator for strategic communications at the white house national security council said. john kirby. he also explained that there are currently no funds for new supplies of weapons and therefore they will stop. we have already provided ukraine with the latest military aid package that we have the funds to support. we need to get help from congress so we can continue to do this, kirby said. question of financing. ukraine from the united states froze at the end of last year due to the reluctance of the republican majority in congress to allocate money without concessions to the biden administration on the issue of the influx of illegal migrants across the border with mexico. in addition, the right demands that democrats report on the effectiveness of spending the previously allocated $45 billion, as well as discuss with them the strategy regarding the ukrainian crisis as a whole. republicans believe that us policy is in the ukrainian direction. went to

a dead end. as expected, the recently elected new president of argentina announced his refusal to join brix in official letters that he sent to all the leaders of the group a few days ago. at this stage of the inclusion of the argentine republic in brix in as a full member from january 1, 2024 , is not practical, neleus said in the letter. at the same time, he assured every brix leader that argentina wants to develop. mainly china, successfully competing as a lobbyist for argentina's membership in brix, advocated with washington for influence in south america, but the victory of the openly pro-american candidate javier meley in the elections broke beijing's plans. in 2023, the last scale disappeared. the united states of america does not.

among great henry's many powerful sayings, i especially like this one. on the next week there cannot be any crisis, the calendar of my meetings is already completely filled, i think it could be entirely repeated by the president of belarus alexander lukashenko, because the past year in his schedule was filled with an unprecedented number of visits, high-level conferences, meetings dedicated to a creative constructive agenda, maybe that’s why the dangerous crisis raging near the borders of belarus bypassed it; how belarusian diplomacy managed to remain peace diplomacy against the backdrop of the surrounding war and the results of the year in world politics will be discussed in today's program. i am glad to welcome vadim borovyak, political scientist, to our studio. hello vadim. hello. with us today is pavel feldman, candidate of political

sciences, associate professor at the academy of labor and social relations, russian federation. hello. hello, nadezh. by tradition, we begin our program with the flash question "belarus". this. an island of stability in modern europe. pavel, this question is addressed to you immediately. well, you know, from russia she looks exactly like this, in a sense , it gives reason to even envy the fact that she has you can look with confidence not only into tomorrow, as one politician from the post-soviet space, whose name i don’t want to remember now, said, but you can look at the long term. and here is a peaceful, calm, self-confident belarus, where there is an opportunity to work, where there is food. the opportunity to develop, where there is bright faith and hope for the future, you know, this is worth a lot, it’s clear, thanks to whom is it? vadim, please, belarus is carrying out a balanced, transparent, aimed at harmonization of international relations and foreign

policy, this naturally bears fruit, we are a donor of regional stability and are maximally interested in keeping things european here. the foreign policy of belarus is aimed at strengthening trust and partnership in the world, and declaring that humanity can build a just world where there will be a place for all the diversity of civilizations, it is important to note key events. key visits of the head of state that took place in 2023, we will recall them in our story: complex, but a productive 2023, as it was for belarus, new contracts, new partners, new challenges: china is the future of the entire

planet. alexander lukashenko announced this during his second working trip to the celestial empire in a year. minsk and beijing are not going to deviate from their common path. the talks at the highest level caused widespread discussion in... and were beneficial for our country. beijing occupies an exceptional place in our foreign policy, however, it is not alone. so distant, but only at first glance, africa turned out to be open to belarus. our country offers equal partnerships. the continent

is rich in minerals, containing about 30% of the world's reserves. for a long time, western countries siphoned off african wealth, simply depriving states of the opportunity to develop independently. belarus is not one of those, in africa they see and appreciate this. belarus is a reliable partner for equatorial guinea, and we reinforce our friendship not only in word, but also in deed. the president of belarus noted that the delegations have done a lot of work, more than seventy projects are already beginning to be implemented. minsk considered kharaara as a reliable partner. zimbabwe has been unable to ensure its own food security for many years; this year it has already begun to export. corn. a promising start has been made, as in the case of kenya. alexander lukashenko’s last visit to this country was short-term, however, the leaders managed to agree on specific supplies in three important areas. experts appreciated the efforts of the parties to increase cooperation. the peoples of the world realize,

most of them have realized, that the future is africa. it's time to. there are many africans who want to cooperate with belarus, this can be seen, including at the climate conference in dubai, the speech of the belarusian leader there was fundamentally different from the plans of his colleagues. whether in mood or content, alexander lukashenko drew attention to the obvious shortcoming of the forum. all participants express deep concern about the ecological state of the planet, but it does not lead to real action. the agenda of all meetings and visits of alexander lukashenko is dictated by time, so the csto meeting this time was held in conditions of militarization of a number of countries. the west is deliberately spinning the spiral of a new arms race, while international law works exclusively. for those elected , there were many internal issues on the agenda of the summit; their resolution, as

our president has repeatedly said, is the only key to preserving the unity of the csto. and of course, moscow remained minsk’s most reliable partner throughout 2023. in december of twenty-three, alexander lukashenko once again went on a working visit to russia, where he took part in a meeting of the supreme eurasian economic council. there are more than two dozen issues on the summit agenda. among them are the development of integration processes in the ias, international activities, macroeconomic policy and others. the most powerful organization of the highways. many are members of this association, which is part of the eu. brix is ​​a very publicized and , correctly, perhaps powerful organization in the future, which many countries are looking at, dissatisfied with the development of the situation in the organization. united nations, but comparing with the eu, i conclude that we have more

opportunities. the results of the outgoing year in russia were summed up within the framework of an informal summit of the heads of state of the cis; this is already a kind of tradition, which also makes it possible to discuss the prospects for the development of integration. vadim, what event, in your opinion, was the most important meeting for the republic of belarus. in general, the foreign policy of belarus. with our strategic ally the russian federation, we have deployed tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of belarus, this is a serious argument for our ill-wishers in order to abstain from any.

within the economic framework of the sco, within the framework of the eurasian union, we have strategic relations with economic growth, and here our work is in russia, with the people's republic of china, with the eec countries. the countries of the near arc in the middle east are our good partners, the united arab emirates, the countries of the far arc we are actively working there, and the main result is the growth of the belarusian economy, all the meetings here were effective, such effective diplomacy of belarus on the external contour. speaking of the third component, this is the political component of our foreign policy, and here the attempt of our ill-wishers to isolate belarus was initially doomed to failure when we have two sides...

what you said about the relationship between the republic of belarus and the people's

republic of china, because while the west is playing geopolitics, fueling wars, belarus and china are united in the idea of ​​building a community with a common destiny for humanity, and trusting political interaction is complemented by record trade figures, i see our yuri dutkin, military expert-analyst, joins the broadcast. yuri, hello! hello, nadezhda, glad to see you. we are summing up the results of the year, summing up the results of the year of foreign policy of the republic of belarus, first of all, we started our program with blitz questions, in your opinion.

with the russian federation, and this instills not only horror, but also wild hatred of the west towards this country, which, in fact, was required to be proven. yuri, you are absolutely right, sovereignty is exactly the term for which ukraine fought so desperately, in ultimately, this term dissolved,

it disappeared and absolutely does not evoke any associations with ukraine.

of all european countries, well, this will lead to disintegration, you can’t hold a broom with barbed wire for a long time about this unity, i already talked about this, yes, you can tie it with barbed wire , but the branches will dry out and fall off, now the same thing is happening, each country is starting to look for ways regaining sovereignty, because he understands that the ship is going down, i really hope that the collapse of... uh , the european union will turn into its reconstruction, reconstruction according to the principle of how it all began, this is a free union of sovereign states, this is necessary, we must return to this, then we can all do it together, the european space does not end at the border of poland, and belarus is part of the european

space, an integral , which sovereignly and for a long time showed its... commitment to personal sovereignty to protect the rights of its people, now for this it was criticized very much and your leader, now we clap our hands and rejoice when such leaders are appearing in europe. waldemar, you know, not long ago i came across a historical video, the words of margaret thatcher, who criticized the soviet union for the fact that key decisions are made exclusively in the center, in the center.

i was a deputy, i saw that 80% of legislative acts come to us, we do not even have the right to discuss this act, they come for consideration if the european union determines the length of the cord of a vacuum cleaner and the film in which to wrap a cucumber determines how many refugees you must accept, determines, how much vaccine should you buy, now this scandal is coming out, our madam is there through a company in which her husband bought vaccines for all of humanity for 100 years in advance, and now states must

buy back this vaccine, which no one needs, poland the first one said, i won’t , they are suing her, they are depriving her of these, moscow had influence, but it was there, look how many related enterprises there were, how many factories were built throughout all the republics and... distributed, and what is the european union doing ? he robbed the entire baltic region, all, all, all, in the balkans, everything, destroying the economy, attracted labor to itself according to the principle of the third rome, this is a terrible dictatorship that has now been arranged by these cool, green-blue, tolerant people, like that. waldemar, i agree with you, except...

to accept in the context of the activities of the union state the consistent position of minsk as the most important ally in moscow, and can it be said that in this case alexander lukashenko and vladimir putin are playing, as the musicians say, with four hands? so it is, by the way, i was very pleased to hear that what vadim said about the strategic partnership of our peoples and our presidents, the whole of eurasia, and the union state that they tried to bury, will rest on this in the future. some of our western partners have not yet revealed a thousandth of their potential. it will not be an analogue of the soviet union, there will be more sovereignty, more democracy, more

opportunity to focus on one’s national interests, but it will still make itself known. this will be one of the leading geopolitical forces on our planet. what as for china, then, of course, cooperation with it gives us confidence. and most importantly , china, unlike western partners, as we once called them, it... imposes on us its political, ideological, spiritual and moral standards, it says: let's respect our national interests , our traditions: live as if you want, build your political perspective in accordance with the aspirations of your own people, and not with some gold standard of western liberal democracy, so if remember the most important events of 2023, then i would include the re-election of the chairman among them.

what is zimbabwe? this is a country that is almost at the very bottom in terms of living standards. and indeed, the country had many problems, bad harvests, and famine began. and when belarus began to cooperate with zimbabwe, it first of all offered its agricultural technology, what we are strong in. and in 2023 there was information that for the first time in zimbabwe they provided themselves with a harvest. for the first time, there was no famine in the country, and there was no need to purchase food abroad. we are talking about...

interests, it will run away with china when we say that in the international arena it is better to resolve issues in a peaceful manner, including negotiations, here is china, by the way, why is it close to us, i will move on to africa, because china as a country is most interested in to ensure the sovereignty of belarus, including within the framework of a union state, it is very important that we build a model, russia and belarus, that will be attractive to our partners in the ias, to our partners. for other integration associations where we we will be a centripetal force , we come to africa as equal partners, we create a springboard for work on the entire continent, that is , transport and logistics chains are built, logistics centers are built, service centers are built, that is , the fact that we will be present in africa is we come together with those partners, such as china, the united arab emirates,

the russian... very arrogantly dismissive, and we, as the heirs of the soviet union , are traditionally perceived there very well, we they love us, they trust us, and we will try to justify this trust of africans in the future. yuri, well, a lot has been said about the danger of deep alienation between the west and russia.

which effectively plays into the hands of china and other developing powers, but nevertheless, the leaders of the united states of america, the european union, and great britain are following a course that is pushing both moscow and minsk towards a closer alliance with beijing, does this mean, that the western establishment no longer cares about this and has no hope for restoration of adequate relations with russia and the republic of belarus in the future. or everything is still ahead and the multipolar system will still show us possible alternative alliances. yes, you are absolutely right, nadezhda, and indeed, both russia and belarus, all the brix states, oddly enough, this is not only an economic union, it is a large political union that

really opposes. the united states and the west today, having united even the great south, as we have already spoken about this many times in your program, so this is the main task of the united states, precisely to resist this, and great britain echoes the united states, in this sense, they are not going to agree with multipolarity, according to their logic, there can be no multipolarity, i repeat once again. the main task is to quarrel within the slavic states, which, in fact, they have already done with ukraine, and not only that, the global task is to quarrel china and the russian federation, you know, under any pretext, it doesn’t matter, yes, yuri, thank you, i would wanted because we didn't we can neither talk nor remember about

the ukrainians. although the latest program 2023 summed up the conflict in this territory, i would like us to hear an exclusive commentary from an italian politician right now. that no one can do anything about it, as for the rest of it, i don’t even want to raise the topic of the hungarian polish minorities, in this part of ukraine various things are happening, but it will be financed by the european union, which will not give anything,

because i am absolutely sure that 80% of the money will be stolen by the government, i think that in the near future they will not be able to join the european union, but they will do it one day if... the european union will still exist, i can’t say for sure , in a year or in 5-10 years, one day, perhaps , they will be able to join the european union, what will remain of ukraine, this is my opinion. waldemar, indeed, in the post-soviet space they are accustomed to the simplified term west, presenting it as a kind of consolidated force based on...

now, on january 8, all of germany will go to barricades, i hope that we will push through the decision to change the government, but the question arises of who to change it to, all the others are also soros, they all passed there. this school , they were given grants there, they were pulled into these positions, they were put in these positions, that is, this is a reserve , a washington reserve, personnel, which will change among themselves

, in principle, everything will remain the same where it is, only the strongest popular movement, which is now it’s approaching, a critical mass is accumulating, it can interrupt this friendship, like... friendship with our overseas colleagues who set themselves the goal of dismembering russia, destroying europe and thereby stopping the development of china. europe is now simply put on the slaughter table by the americans. we now need to raise a popular movement that would overthrow this elite, they would go to their place somewhere, let them go to...

the question and expressed their opinion that belarus is really interested in the european union survived and was a partner, a self-respecting partner, and at the meeting with mr. sijart this thought sounded, we understand what is happening today, today there is one force, this is one firm of the anglosaction, washington and london, which are interested in maintaining control of the international financial system, international trade and, in principle, for the coming decades. global issues of determining the world order, after the collapse of the union they felt quite confident, even russia agreed to this in many respects, but russia asked: do not interfere in our affairs, let us develop in our zone of influence, but what do they

they got scared, they saw that thanks to the fact that russia has risen economically and is trading with europe in a high-quality manner, it is rising, europe is rising, more independent voices are beginning to be heard there, and china, which was absolutely there. my colleague from germany is right , he is largely focused on trade with the european union, trade with the eu is several times larger, china has more than even the united states, but china is seriously tied to the american market, and accordingly.

one of the participants in the multipolar world,

the multipolar system of the future, but the european union today is equal to the united states of america, the point then is in their division, i would like to begin with a hopeful objection to your italian colleague, who previously spoke out, yes, yes, that the supposedly eastern territories, which are already... are de facto according to the constitution russian federation, are territories, the peoples of these territories are citizens of the russian federation, including crimea, and they say this, you know, there is an unspoken idea that we need to stop here and lead some, start leading some kind of negotiations, this is very often talked about today in the west in journalistic circles.

times, that in no speeches, the highest mistake, because i will remind once again the leadership of the russian federation, conducting a special military operation on the territory of ukraine, has not abandoned its previous concept, demilitarization and...

the only meaning of its existence is to destroy russia and belarus. we historically have no right to allow the existence of such a state, if we've already started. therefore, no one will abandon the matter halfway. it is wrong to start the question with the word when. no one knows when the special military operation will end, but we can say for certain how it will end. not by capturing cities, it will end with internal centrifugal force. which source will be ukrainian society itself, and the sooner it

realizes this, the better. by the way, 2024 is a formidable year not only because it is the year of the dragon, but in ukraine they see special symbolism in it. 2004, maidan number 1, 2014, maidan number 2, 2024, could become for ukraine the saving year of the people's liberation maidan, number three, the result of which will be.

in this context, china and north korea stand out as countries where the united states of america and the north atlantic treaty organization compete in the region. and after the global economic crisis that began in 2008, in 2010 china overtook japan to become the world's second largest economy. in subsequent periods , beijing rose to the top of the global supply chain thanks to its growing economy. and this situation made it possible. china's rise as a pro -multipolar player against the western axis after the cold war, tensions in the asia-pacific region, more details in our story. the west is gaining influence in the asia-pacific region. instability there is provoked, in particular , by the united states. washington is unceremoniously

expanding its military infrastructure, bringing it closer to the borders of russia and china, and is leading a military, essentially anti-chinese alliance of which it is a member. usa, england and australia is considering the possibility of supplying weapons to taiwan to create a new alliance of the pacific four, the usa, japan, australia, and the philippines. meanwhile, tensions between the us and china could fuel flashpoints in the asia- pacific region. thus, the visit of us house speaker pelosi to taiwan was regarded in beijing as a political provocation. let me remind you that the politician visited the island in august last year and during the trip stated that the united states opposes unilateral attempts to change the status quo of the island, and solidarity the united states and the people of the country are more important today than ever. it is escalating the situation in the region, including nato’s advance to the east. this not only intensifies the arms race and poisons the atmosphere of regional cooperation, but also provokes even a new cold war.

however, the promotion of the north atlantic alliance in the asia-pacific region does not meet with support. the international community is resisting this. earlier , french president emmanuel macron publicly opposed the creation of a nato liaison office in japan, emphasizing that the alliance's charter clearly limits its geographic scope to the north atlantic, and japan is clearly not there. vadim, in your opinion, how will relations with beijing and washington be built? 2024 raises concerns among many regarding instability, but destabilization. situation in the south china sea, and do you think that the russian federation and the republic of belarus are reliable partners for the people's republic of china today? well, of course, we are reliable partners, this is at the level chairman sidinzin and vladimir putin, alexander lukashenko has not only been repeatedly stated, but also confirmed by specific

actions during the voting of the united nations, during economic cooperation, etc. china, it... was not so easy for him, but having calculated all the geopolitical threats and economic risks, he decided to make maximum efforts to resolve the issue with taiwan peacefully, that is, it is strategically beneficial for china to resolve this issue peacefully, therefore when we we are talking about ukraine, i will not go into details now, so as not to incite a discussion there, i think we need to be more moderate, more restrained, and ours...

that by the year twenty-seven they will try to build the most powerful army in the world, everything for they are doing this, to create a competitive us fleet, everything is being done for this , in some positions today china competes,

europe is engaged in self-destruction, we did more by trading with europe, and russia supplies cheap energy there for the unity

of europe, than europe itself does today for themselves, especially these newly arrived countries, which why did the baltics need to speak sharply against china regarding taiwan, why, well, today china left lithuania the same way that the americans came there, no, there are no americans there, but they lost investments, and china needs to think not only about taiwan, which is very important for china, but do you think whether this will contribute to a speedy end to the conflict, or the united states, how it will behave, we can predict this, your forecast is 2024,

unfortunately, in the 21st century strength factor, that one no one has yet canceled brute military force to maintain stability in certain corners of the world; moreover, as practice shows, only force was able to prove to the whole world that the west has turned, remember, as vladimir lyanin said, into a wall that you can only poke and will fall apart. i have another image in my head, this is some kind of aging grandmaster who is already falling into dementia, but is trying to conduct a simultaneous game session on different sites, in the middle east, in europe, in the asia-pacific region, and the result is everywhere alone, he fails everywhere. the chinese in this regard, yes, well done , i can’t help but admit it, they know how to wait, they know how to wait, they understand that taiwan is like a ripe apple, sooner or later it will fall into their hands, and they need america and the european union.

to fight with the wrong hands, you know or not, as you know, one american politician said, the people of libya will remember our presence in this region all their lives, the people of afghanistan will remember, the people of iraq will remember, ours are already thinking about a new war, they have forgotten for a long time they are elected , you know what they mean, they ruined destinies as a whole, the ukrainian people will remember this tragedy for hundreds of years, you understand it or not, the americans won’t even remember in 10 years, so you and i need to learn today, which means defending our national interests. and not to succumb to provocations as much as possible, while i am sure that vladimir putin, when making any decisions, relied on intelligence data, his departments, and

so on, so we do not question it, but we are saying that further we need to de ... here is a multipolar world in 2023 has crystallized, it exists and it will be , alexander lukashenko said this 20 years ago, let’s hear his direct speech, they understand that tomorrow the dollar will be taken away from them, roughly speaking, a new currency will appear, and hegemony will end, they say in fools in belarus

: today is our program, today is january 7th, it goes on air, on christmas day, i want us to end this extremely complex program about the results, about forecasts with something kind and bright, and i kindly ask you to address our respected viewers, final word today's program, thank you, hope, despite the fact that in ukraine. the nazi regime of zelensky destroyed the canonical ukrainian orthodox church , the vast majority of ukrainian citizens certainly celebrate this holy holiday, holy nativity, precisely on january 7, despite everything, despite the colossal repressions within the country, against

the clergy, especially this canonical church, against individual citizens who have always supported and prayed for peace, primarily in ukraine, i i want to congratulate all citizens of ukraine on this bright day and continue to believe that good will triumph, it cannot be otherwise, thank you, i will conclude our program today with a quote from kessinger, back in the late nineties he noted that not a single great power... does not retreat forever and turned out to be right in relation to russia, but this is also true for the united states, so let’s not rush to bury them, in the coming year they will remind themselves more than once, and as the president of the republic of belarus alexander lukashenko rightly noted, a multipolar world will bring benefits to all states, this is the future of the whole world. thank you, happy holiday, it was a program authorized to declare. the year 2023 has become.

broken in the process of transition to a multipolar system of international relations, their path to their own happiness is incredibly interesting, complex in its own way, seeing the response of modern people to the holidays that i and my students celebrate. this resonates with everyone, the language of joy, the language of smiles, the language all peoples of the earth understand laughter, sometimes i feel like santa claus, since, probably, products from ours already hang on every belarusian christmas tree production, hanging our christmas tree decorations. each story is a motivation to change your life for the better. art is a book of development, like a branch, it is gradual.