the closer to the start of the olympic games in paris, the more problems the organizers have. it got to the point that the opening ceremony of the games was on the verge of collapse due to a mass strike of artists. they are dissatisfied with the working conditions of the payment system, directly claiming a violation of the contract. they say they were simply deceived. french media report that at the moment there is no progress in negotiations, but the large-scale production on july 26 on the senya river should involve 3,000 artists and 400 dancers. instead of magnificent sports festival, paris risks disgracing the whole world. not thanks to, in spite of, another athlete from belarus will take part in the summer games in paris. freestyle wrestler magomed khabib kadi magomedov received an invitation from the international olympic committee. let us remember that at the tokyo olympics 3 years ago, he won a silver medal. thus, only 17 of our athletes will compete in ten sports. and this is the information picture. july saturday evening

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i couldn’t imagine myself working in a job other than the diplomatic service, and of course, inside i was always striving for a career, as they say, then at some point, for any military man, for a soldier, it means becoming a general, so with us to become an ambassador, but fate decreed that she threw me into the presidential administration. when in

the presidential administration it seemed to me that there was no better job in building the foreign policy of our state, based on installations of the president, the curator of the diplomatic line, the president sent me to sports... a path where my father really didn’t want me to ever end up, that is, himself, being the minister of sports, he always characterized it as very intriguing , quarrelsome, so i always said that my son would not go into the sports industry, but i got there, well, then the presidential administration came back, when i had already gotten used to the fact that there is no better than sports diplomacy, when in the presidential administration i became involved in the most serious issues activity of the head of our state, it turned out that...

when everyone begins to agree in detail what this order will be like next, while these conflicts, ukraine, the middle east, some asian things, they, of course, show exactly fault lines are the imperfections of the unipolar order that existed, everyone understands that

something needs to be done with international organizations that are supposed to deal with issues of global security and stability, but they don’t do this, that’s what needs to be negotiated somehow, regardless of size countries. economic potential with each other, that we need to enter into cross-border, good cooperation, this is better than any war, in fact, you see how shuttle diplomacy today has turned into the main work of diplomats in many countries, that is, traveling to each other , international forums, holding conferences, russia and i are putting forward our proposals for signing, that is, charters of multipolarity and diversity, corresponding things to our china.

i will answer with the expression of gromyk, who said: 10 years of negotiations are better than one day of war. today there are 10 years of negotiations, and as our president says, it is better to have more negotiations. and longer than strictly speaking, at least there were even hints that some kind of armed conflicts in which our country would be drawn, of course, no one needs war, at least belarusians definitely don’t need it, but you remembered your father, then i will definitely ask this question, in our country there are not many hereditary leaders, political dynasties, well, not ours history, the average official, he’s more like me, he comes from the outback, right? and moved to minsk and so on and went, you are from a family in the capital, your father, you yourself said this, was the minister of sports, the first president of belarus and was friends with zamoranch, as far as i know, this is the background, he helped you in career, or did you still have to constantly prove

your own self-sufficiency? the question is very interesting, i will say that of course, if my father continued. live occupying the positions that he held then, well, or remaining in active political life of the country, there probably wouldn’t be minister ryzhenkov today, because his death, when i was only 24 years old, when i just came to the ministry of foreign affairs, having worked there for only 2 years, of course it greatly influenced my life guidelines, so and if before that it was really possible to go through life, relying on the power of, in my opinion, a very integral... wise and stable person like a father, then at the age of 24 it all ended and i had to get out further on my own. the most it’s interesting that there are a lot of people who, in general, were once close to my father, and at that moment they said to our family: that’s it, rozhenko, your time is over, then let’s somehow do it ourselves, and choose how if,

strictly speaking, there had been no, i am very grateful to those people in the foreign ministry who picked me up, then later to the head of our state, because i already said this, all my... contact, he often talks about this with my father , that is, he just stayed in this position and started, because in those 24 years, of course, everything collapsed at once and i had to create everything from the very beginning, in fact, when at some point people who did not know my ancestry found out that i had such a father, then of course they were very surprised that that such a son grew up, because in fact in those years few of the... children of big officials went into public service, because these are low salaries, these are small opportunities, this is absolutely

not a solution to some everyday issues that a young family needs , there is an apartment, a car, some things, i could go there because my father was nearby, when my father passed away, it was already an inertial movement further, by that time i had already become part of the diplomatic family, i liked it and i had already moved on, but most young people , i remember with whom i studied, and there were all around and... these cooperative movements, various companies, i went, they all went then, nascent ones , none of them went into public service, they were not private corporations, some went abroad , and so on , but practically no one i didn’t go into the civil service, so then it wasn’t quite so camille, now i think that if the child of a civil servant wants to go into the civil service, this should only be welcomed. means what the family brought him, the feeling of patriotism is correct, in fact, when you look

at some of our leaders, whose children study abroad and do not return, stay there, create families and, in fact, continue their lives there, well, for me this indicator of education corresponding to families like this, so i would only welcome, of course, parents should also see to it that after all his child, who is going... to work, still has his own life, you cannot steal the life of your son or daughter , that is, you can only push him towards something, advise something, that’s it, but i’m absolutely sure you can’t pull him, pull him through all the steps of the career ladder, otherwise he will lose himself at some point when there is no such support, will be left alone with his problems, it will turn out that with these problems he can’t cope on his own, then it’s a tricky question, but i can’t help but ask. in your last post, you largely determined the course of a number

of ministries, this is what it’s like to implement your own guidelines today, on a different level, yes, you wouldn’t want to soften these requirements now, but since already, well, i’m on this trick i will also answer with revelation, yes, well, not so much , i probably built how the ministry should work, but how they should structure their work based on the tasks of the instructions, that the president puts forward, this is the absolute truth, and of course, i had to ask very harshly from the ministry of foreign affairs , including, but what is the big difference, that when you are in the administration above you, the head of the administration and the president, and in fact, you understand this pulse, which beats in the palace of independence, you pass it on, as the president says: to feel the rhythm and tension, that’s one thing, when you sit down, that means the ministry,

it turns out that the pulse is passed on to you from the presidential administration, from the council ministers, from the council of ministers there is one deputy prime minister, a second deputy prime minister, a third, the prime minister, and so on and so forth, here you begin to understand that there are probably too many of these pulses, and of course, i would like a little less of this tension, because he’s a charged person, who sort of went through such a school near the president, i...

with projects and ideas, and secondly, of course, increased demands on our embassies and on the foreign ministry unit to carry out the tasks and instructions set by the president and the government , because, of course, after all rhythm, external trade, foreign economic relations, political relations, it should be more manifested through the foreign ministry, and today,

when we have distributed individual powers to develop relations with organizations, some countries, to members of the government, there are ministers, heads of organizations, of course, it’s important that mead remains the coordinator of this work and still concentrates this work on himself, besides, you know, i’ve always been a little bit struck by one topic, that we kind of live in the same space, we see the same events, but we don’t see how the president’s proposal suddenly reacts to them, but... let’s try to do this, and we are already starting to move, preparing some kind of preparation, that means for a move, and further, in general, we are developing it, i immediately told my colleagues, as soon as i came to the foreign ministry, why we always go, well, it’s like one or two steps behind the president, yes, of course, the president naturally feels many things much more sensitively than us, but we will never

escape the fact that there will be orders, there will be expectations, but we still have to do more... deliver shells than just carry out his tasks, that is, we ourselves have to initiate something and throw it there, which means for elaboration, so that the president can see that the foreign ministry has an understanding of the current agenda , and we are also not a little isolated from the country, we are trying to reformat this international agenda to the needs of the socio-political and socio-economic development of the country, and not as it once was, that the foreign ministry’s answer was that... you know, you put things in order there some political affairs, economic issues, social character, give us this and we will promote the interests of belarus somewhere abroad, probably not so, the mechanism for promoting our internal economic policy is the foreign ministry, and not vice versa, well, let’s talk a little about rhythm, since you’ve already mentioned that literally a week after your appointment, you were already received by the

chinese foreign minister; before that, in astana, you already talked with the foreign ministers of russia and kazakhstan. it’s about this shake-up, isn’t the rhythm so frantic? well in many ways, i will say, this rhythm was set before me by sergei fedorovich olenik, in fact , i am very grateful to him, because many of the things that i have today in my work schedule of meetings and travel contacts were all directly worked out by him and the team mida, but i am very grateful, and indeed i have further strengthened this dynamic, because just... how you will show yourself in the first days, weeks, months of work, how you will make acquaintances, how you will position yourself in relationships with your colleagues, largely depends on how you smoothly or not smoothly you will enter this community, or something like foreign policy, which we really need today, and of course for me, as a young minister from the point of view

of appointment, it was very important to carry out this kind of meetings, conversations, conversations, well. .. our closest allies, in fact, this is a great help in further work, well, i can even say special gratitude, given something to my colleague from kazakhstan, in fact, as soon as the appointment took place in the country, i was immediately my visit to the foreign ministry was organized, a meeting and a gala dinner there were organized from the point of view of the fact that we met, and he also turned out to be the head of the

presidential administration, so there was something to talk about, these points of contact were found, now i understand that... i have a friend in central asia and he also understands that there is someone to rely on in belarus, but i also can’t help but highlight the meeting with lavrov, because i had a telephone conversation with him literally on the second day after the appointment, there was a very important topic, we worked it out very well, and of course the first official conversation upon arrival in astana, well, i can’t help but pay tribute to the wisdom and generally conceptual approach of my colleague from china, mr. wang yi. of course, i was very amazed; the meeting, instead of the short time planned there, lasted 3 hours, and it took place in a country residence, a government one, which has never happened. moreover, all this was confirmed after my appointment, so, of course, this rhythm i i built it myself, based on what happened before, but, frankly speaking, i am very

grateful for this, but the president noted that you are not a new person in diplomatic circles, you worked in poland in israel, i, perhaps, am from a familiar neighboring country i’ll start: on tuesday, latvia banned the entry into its territory of cars with... belarusian license plates, poland creates constant obstacles at the border for our heavy trucks, lithuania is generally concerned about the belarusian food basket for those who cross the border, mit once promised that will give its asymmetrical answer, so what answer does mit give? the ministry of foreign affairs worked out the proposal and discussed all the details with those interested. submitted to the president for consideration, here is a proposal for visa-free entry into the territory of belarus for citizens of a number of states, this proposal was supported by the president,

and i am pleased to our colleagues and partners from eu countries to announce that from the 19th 8 am a new regime will be introduced for citizens of european countries union of other european countries for which up to present time.

let's go to belarus tomorrow, let's go, well, as they say in the foreign ministry, welcome. poland:

for me personally, the possibility of closing borders to cargo is nothing more than a pr decision that will obviously hit the poles themselves, no matter how they put on a good face when they play poorly? and yet, won’t poland turn into a polish dead end of the silk road? you know, a very, interesting question. i think that i know poland a little and understand it. i’ll tell you one more secret, but it may not be a secret for certain people, for the poles it’s definitely not a secret, therefore for you and for the viewers of the program too. my grandmother was maria genrikhovna, and my mother was bronislava frantsevna, on that line, which means it was just like that. let’s say, the polish part of my gene pool, therefore, when i say that until her last days my grandmother went to the red church and prayed in polish, you will understand that i, too,

in fact, understand in general what the polish people, the polish nation, are , their aspiration, inner mentality, because i remember both my grandmother and mother very well, they were such pure polish women, in fact, with all the characteristic deeds, hard work, such ... quite sharp emotionality, at the same time with a very tough character, women are very bright in themselves, so, to be honest, i imagine everything, speaking about poland, i would like to say that poland will never will act to the detriment of their interests, what they are doing today means only one thing, that it corresponds to their interests today, at the moment, you know, there are some political things in poland that allow such an attitude towards belarus. means, somewhere with someone they are playing this trump card of our border and this trade turnover, well, i want to say that blackmail regarding the transit

of chinese goods did not work out for them. from the word at all, no matter how they swaggered there, otherwise these fugitives would not agree with them, in fact, it was our initiative, during my trip we handed over a number of documents there, which means that the nature of things at the border was explained in great detail, which was accepted not just with understanding, it was accepted by our colleagues, and at this point interest disappeared in principle to any intrigues on this part, the most interesting thing is that cutting off this piece.

organization you are in, because petty blackmail at the expense of the interests of the fact that these migrants today are a really serious problem for the european union, problems with cargo flow, a serious problem for companies in the european union and chinese partners, and here they decided to make everyone hostages, well i think that as soon as they see... that this is not working, then figuratively speaking, this topic will go somewhere, they will are still forced to cooperate with us, let me remind you that the president made them an offer, we are waiting for them in belarus, we will show them everything, tell them everything, talk, if they have any doubts, any comments, we are ready to listen to it , but we are ready to work, understanding that on this side there is a serious national polish minority with whom they would like to maintain

relations, on the other side... there is the belarusian side, but with such steps they are acting in violation of all norms, rules, good neighborliness , all conventions and standards of the osce, the council of europe and so on, but today everyone turns a blind eye to this. let's then look at this issue in bilateral relations, and a little from the other side, because it is poland and lithuania, our closest neighbors, that have become a haven for our fugitives, including for people who are actually criminals. but love for them has recently begun to turn, to put it mildly, into non-acceptance, yes, mass refusal of a residence permit, in lithuania, in the same, yes, declaring people a threat to national security, well, numerous relocations, 40% of the companies that first left for lithuania have now left, is this some kind of new diplomatic

maneuver today? or as in gold...

lithuania was officially, in my opinion, the ninety -fifth year, in my opinion, or the ninety-four ninety-fifth, probably our president signing a treaty of friendship and cooperation , several more agreements on the border there on the status of some objects , lithuania speaks for all of them, and there it means hanging a tapestry

of some century with a coat of arms means a chase where the tail is down at that time with us it means the coat of arms is just a chase with the tail down and with all the noticeable things that. characterizes the difference between the coats of arms at that time, which means, of lithuania and belarus, there is generally some kind of dissonance, that is , it seems like, and of course this all depresses them, they thought that they would change power here, imprison someone, which means in exchange for this, and we absolutely know that such conversations were held, they will receive a solution to their financial, economic, and maybe even land problems, in fact, for this, such people will sit here in the kingdom. v belarus, but this didn’t happen, naturally, they thought of doing it with a cavalry attack in the style of the polish hussars, but it didn’t work out that way, and what was interesting in the first year, in the second year,

motorcades, trips, belarusian houses and so on, complete freedom in decisions and actions for these fugitives, today it is already becoming a burden, to be honest, i’m wondering how to explain this to those guards. which these drivers and motorcades walk around tikhanovskaya, maybe even more than around the president of lithuania, all these 4 years than they are they doing this at all, why is this necessary, i’m not even talking about ordinary taxpayers of these two countries, why is money being spent on this whole bunch if their work does not lead to anything good in relations between countries, in principle, we all already understand that they are going nowhere they won’t come, they won’t sit anywhere and they won’t give any chips... to these countries , they will still have to sit down and negotiate with the current government here with president alexander grigorievich lukashenko, so today it’s more and more like a suitcase without a handle, and then this one the pen will also be thrown away. when some ties

are destroyed, belarus creates practically new things at lightning speed. in general, diplomacy, in the classical sense, is something cautious, conservative with soft legs, right? and then again, zimbabwe.

in order to maintain the sustainable development of our country, as i said earlier, we must find a replacement for all this through diplomatic instruments, of course, it’s a pity, because from the point of view of optimality, looking across three seas, when you have it here across the border, is a big expense , so they have there is a need, they have a need, but today this is the only opportunity, because, well, the lack of agreement of our partners overseas is absolute and we... always welcome any consultations, we are ready to be open to any negotiations on any topics, to resolve any issues that are on the agenda same day, but today we are forced to go to our already partners further away, and where they are waiting for us, where they are waiting for us, where and i will tell you what

i can be sure of, that our partners are further there, russia, the cis countries, china, in africa, our partners in asia are more reliable, because in fact it turns out that... we look at the world with the same eyes, and in fact all of us, through organizations such as the shanghai cooperation organization, brix, regional organizations that exist in asia and latin america, in the middle east, we are all adherents of that new world of multipolarity, and these adherents are becoming more and more numerous. we take only one organization, the sco. the sco has a population of almost 3.5 billion, which is 40% of the world's population; if you combine the sco with brix, there will already be more half the world's population. if we take the sco as actually 30% of the industrial production of the entire world, we add it there.

this is the heart of the world in general, that’s why we go there. now, in order to get to the same lithuania or latvia, yes, you have to stand at the border for 30 hours, yes, and minsk-beijing, in my opinion, what is it, 10 hours, it will fly even less, well, it turns out to be three seas away, yes exactly, it’s very close, the question is, what about the sco, we need to try to explain to ordinary belarusians what this organization gives to each of us, and not the state. v in general, that's what? well, within the framework of these organizations

, both the sco and brix, the common approaches of the participating countries are being worked out, partners and observers also participate in this, which means that in solving economic issues, social issues, educational issues, in addition, this is a powerful platform for building a common political line, this is a platform for holding multilateral and bilateral meetings to further resolve an already bilateral issue. this is support in international organizations, and i say that within these organizations we we can rely and believe that our partners will not abandon us and will support us, and practice proves this, this is the solution to financial issues that also concern us today, this means promoting joint projects, for example, logistics such as the transport corridor from belarus to pakistan via russia. through kazakhstan, uzbekistan, afghanistan, afghanistan in this

regard, today the already calm state spoke with the minister of foreign affairs of afghanistan, he told me a lot about how serious trade is today between these two countries and even advised us to also go to afghanistan and further through afghanistan, so we still have a lot of stereotypes regarding countries, because we may know them little, but in fact, these are the broadest opportunities for multilateral formats of cooperation and ... and the most important thing is that this is a strengthening of the role of profit, the political positioning of the country, followed by specific economic ones of the global south and the member countries of these organizations in terms of countering all these political attacks, sanctions regimes and so on from the collective west. okay, brix, when will this abbreviation finally become ours? well, there is one topic on brix, we are currently very... closely cooperating within the framework of this organization, we take part in all its segments,

meetings at the level of ministers of education, on economic issues, in these, you know, games of the brix countries we took part , the president is going to attend the brix summit in october, which will be in kazan and this will be his full-fledged participation there, taking into account the meeting still in the bilateral track, while 10 countries are members, it means that the final legal form is now being formulated... consolidation of the term brix partner or observer, how they come up with this, we really hope that by the brix summit in kazan, it will be finally formulated, and i want to tell you that taking into account the negotiations held with all brix member countries, there is an agreement recorded that belarus will be among the first of these partners of this organization, as long as there is such an expectation that... there will be no more than the number members, that is, there are also 10, so we have

confirmation that all brix members are ready to see belarus there as one of these ten, i think that this is quite accurate today. here is the world, it is changing right before our eyes, and this is not a dystopia, not a science fiction, as they say, but information specialists, today we are talking about the fact that the distant arc, it has become much closer even than some. from the point of view of a diplomat, why is africa interesting to us and why is india interesting to us, since you already remembered it? well, actually so, i am in favor of using any mechanisms in the implementation of our goals, objectives, in the development of bilateral interaction with

countries, that is, even if it is first ladies and informal communication, now following the results of this visit. all these formats serve only one thing : strengthening relations, interpersonal contacts, on which economic and political relationships and international support are then strung. africa. 15 billion population. that's decent. second topic. further dynamics of population growth, and that is, the market will only. consumer increase. next: these are huge resources, according to many indicators, more than 30-40% of global reserves, and they are in great demand in metallurgy and industry recently. and look at the independent

policies that african countries have begun to pursue. more and more, breaking away from previously imposed agreements or agreements. let's call these countries of the collective west, there is more and more desire there to independently build their lives, independence of their external, economic politics, why is this interesting for us, why might they be interested in working with us, we are going there as partners, real partners, neither the belarusian people nor the soviet people have ever been to africa, in india they have never been as a colonialist, we have always been there those who helped them build them. economy, social sphere, infrastructure, unlike western countries, which always came there as colonists, sucked out all the wealth, which sucked out everything, which means resources, and neocolonialism continues and today, why do many people think,

this happened with libya, how it happened, why this conflict happened in syria, in iraq, that means, at one time, why did egypt do this too, the color revolutions shook, we know where they started, tunisia, because that these countries at some point moved from such a simple trade with the west, which was expressed like this, there is, relatively speaking, oil, there are diamonds, bauxite, something else, in exchange for goods, equipment of the west, they switched to what began to develop the corresponding production, at some point a dilemma arose for...

processing with the help of belarus russia there is china and so on, what will be the pumping of capital from european countries, nothing for them. good, in many ways the same paradigm was in relation to these wars between the west and china there in the 15th century, when china simply began to actually pump silver from the new world and from europe, switching to silver currency, without buying anything in europe, but selling there from silk to paper and everything that china was famous for at that time, so there is the same approach, purely predatory, and as soon as are beginning to develop, everything is uninteresting, these countries need to... change rulers, which means they need to be hooked on luxury items that they learned to make during this time in europe, and so that everything is imported there, the peoples, and so today these peoples have recovered, today they are ready to develop, and we come there with technologies, we come there with assembly plants, we come there with specialists who

teach them competencies, this is what the west doesn’t like, because love ends immediately, love ends, well india, well, the president always says that... with india we should try to reach a level, well, no less than with china. in fact, the country is huge, powerful, developed, and of course, there are opportunities to find some niches where we do not compete or where, on the contrary, we can create something jointly so that this would be a slightly higher priority with some western countries, and of course, in this regard, it means that the inertia of movement is a little greater, but i... i want to tell you, despite this, there are a number of projects, there are a number of agreements, and i am sure that in the near future time, without revealing their ins and outs now, well, we will be witnesses, which means their implementation.

all countries of the world, all international organizations are making their forecasts about what america will be like with trump or with biden, making their forecasts, what this will mean for the international security architecture, what this will mean for relations with certain countries, i would honestly say , today i did not engage in such forecasts for one reason only, yes, during the trump election campaign there are certain things that are close to us and close to many countries, which, honestly speaking, we are already a little tired of this us mentoring intervention in topics that,

well, from the point of view, so to speak, of the collective international community, well, in principle, is not the business of the united states of america, but in america itself there is also fatigue from the fact that there are so many today the country's leadership is engaged externally. yes, and we have fenced ourselves off here, and there are such people, so there are many opinions, we understand that any of the next presidents

will be primarily based on the interests of america, that’s what the interests will be at that time moment, i would like these interests to first of all correspond, you know, to such civilized methods of achieving one’s goals abroad, but if this happens, then we will welcome these changes in foreign policy. america, if it continues, then this policy of unilateral pressure, sanctions, starting wars, because all these wars that are on the perimeter of china, russia in hot spots, these are all, in fact, sponsored and encouraged precisely from the ocean, growth points are here this potential a conflict that is capable of going beyond the boundaries of purely these regions and...

then i think that they, because they cannot escape anywhere, multipolarities today, in the near

future, there is no alternative, one can feel the school, maxim vladimirovich, diplomatic. very diplomatic, pravdanovych, unfortunately, the last semi-philosophical question, if you compare the statements of two famous people, regarding one subject, you can get completely different answers, but according to your counterpart, lavov, with whom you met recently, yes, the main thing is always stay honest and don't betray anyone.

but the answer is on the surface precisely for the reason that we, belarus, i, as a minister, need predictable, reliable partners, this can only be achieved by fulfilling your agreements, promising what you can deliver, and monitoring implementation so as not to let your partners down, what our president always talks about, if they promised to fulfill, control, achieve.

if we are talking about a muzzle, well , what distinguished us in the west is that in the last 200-300 years they have been wearing this muzzle in africa for asia, and today we see what kind of relations, french relations with the african continent are simply being torn to pieces, the british flag there no longer flies so proudly in those former dominions and...