countries creates the so-called baltic line of defense on the border with russia by our state. it involves the construction of fortified defensive positions and various obstacles, including anti-tank ditches, dragon teeth and mining of the border area. the council of europe recommended that vilnius reconsider the structure of correctional institutions, namely, think through in detail a strategy for increasing the number of guards. this, according to the organization, should... help avoid violence among prisoners. violence in european context - the term is ephemeral; it turns out that it means drug use, informal hierarchy and untimely medical care. previously, the council of europe has repeatedly criticized lithuania for conditions in prisons, including physical abuse of prisoners by staff. the heat is easing, and belarusians will experience unstable weather throughout the week. comfortable warmth will be

replaced by rain and thunderstorms. in the brez and grodno regions there are heavy downpours and gusty winds. tomorrow night maximum temperature up to +19, in the daytime up to 30 degrees. in some areas there are thunderstorms, gusty winds during thunderstorms during the day, and light fog in places at night and in the morning. air temperature at night +11-19, during the day +23 +30. in some places in the west - +20- +22°. on the weekend. the weather will not change, it will be warm, but not hot, with rain and thunderstorms in places. my colleagues will tell you even more news at 15:00, i say goodbye to you, have a nice monday.

maxim vladimirovich, good evening, good evening, we continue the series of acquaintances with new ministers, probably even more difficult than lead.

they said correctly, then at some point i really couldn’t imagine a job other than the diplomatic service, and of course, inside i always strived for a career, as they say, for any military man, for a soldier, that means becoming a general , so we became 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... the instructions

of the president, the curator of the diplomatic line, the president sent me down a sports path, which my father really didn’t want me to ever get into, that is , being the minister of sports himself, he always characterized it as very intriguing, quarrelsome, so he always said that my son was in the sports industry will not work, 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 sports diplomacy, when in the presidential administration i became involved... in the most serious issues of the activities of the head of our state, it turned out that in his opinion, it means that it will work out better for me again where the ministry of foreign affairs is, which , to be honest, i didn’t even think about as a workplace in the near future, and certainly didn’t dream of, so here rather be afraid of your reluctances, but of yours some kind of complex, this has been haunting me all my life. from the point of view of what period today is for diplomats, well, i’ll say that on the contrary, yes... such a period

is diplomatic, because you see how painfully the international agenda is going through this transformation from unipolar to multipolar. world, and even the americans today no longer doubt that the world is moving towards this multipolarity, it is only a matter of time how long this hegemony can be retained, everyone understands this, of course, and of course, today the most important task of a diplomat of all countries, politicians of all countries, find a place for your state in the architecture that will come after, when everyone begins to substantively agree on what this order will be like next, while there are still these conflicts with...

stability, but they don’t do this, that’s what is needed somehow agree, regardless of the size of countries, economic potential with each other, that it is necessary to enter into cross-border, good cooperation, this is better than any there... and in fact, you see how shuttle diplomacy has today turned into, well, the main one the work of diplomats from many countries, that is, trips to each other, international forums, conferences, russia and i are putting forward our proposals for signing, which means charters of multipolarity and diversity, relevant things, you are ours the chinese side, peace initiatives in ukraine, issues of un reform, today it’s all just seething, so from the point of view. in general, a diplomatic worker who wants to prove himself and who wants to take part in something so eventful, today is just the time to work, well, to the question of such a militarized thing, i will answer with the expression of gromyk, who said: “better 10 years of negotiations than one day of war." today are these 10 years

of negotiations, and as our president says, it is better that there are more negotiations and longer than actually, at least there were even hints that some kind of armed conflicts would be drawn into it. our country, of course, no one needs war, at least belarusians, they definitely don’t need it, but - you remembered your father, then i will definitely ask this question, in our country there are not so many hereditary leaders, political dynasties, well, sort of not our story, the average official, he’s more like me, he comes from the outback, and he moved to minsk and so on and so on, you’re from a family in the capital, your father, you they said it themselves, he was the minister of sports, the first president of belarus and was friends with samorance, as far as i know, this is the background, did he help you in your 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 had continued to live in the positions he held then, or while remaining in the active political life of the country, probably today. the most interesting thing is that there are a lot of people who, in general, were with their father at one time seems to be close, so at that moment they said to our family: well, everything, ryzhenko in your time is over, let’s continue somehow on our own, and as a matter of fact, there was no choice, i’m 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 movements were his decisions, and without even asking for my opinion, because somewhere even fatherly i led further in... life, taking into account probably to a greater extent, i i think those personal contacts, he often talks about this with my father, that is, he remained, unexpectedly for me , the person who at some point later, seeing that i could probably make something it turns out that someone somewhere started preparing me, maybe he started for this position, because in those 24 years, of course, everything collapsed at once and everything had to be created. 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 there when my father passed away, it was already an inertial movement on, by that time i had already become part of the diplomatic family, i liked it, i had already moved on, but most of the youth. into the public service, this should only be welcomed, this means that 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, remain there, create families, in fact , continue to live there, well, for me this is an indicator of appropriate upbringing in such families, and therefore, as much as i would welcome, of course, parents should also see that... after all, his child, who goes to work, it was after all your own life, you can’t 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, he will be left alone with his problems, it turns out that he himself cannot cope with these problems, 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 how it is to accept its own instructions for implementation today, but on a different level, yes, you wouldn’t want to soften these demands right now, but since already, well, i’ll also answer this trick with revelation - yes, well, no no i built so much, probably, as it were, how minis should work, i had to be very tough with 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, the president, in fact, you understand this pulse, which beats in the palace of independence, you pass it on, as the president says, so that you feel the rhythm and tension, this is one thing, when you sit down, it means the ministry turns out that... the pulse is transmitted from the presidential administration, from the council of ministers, from the council of ministers one

vice -prime minister, second deputy prime minister, third, prime minister, and so on and so on, 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 the person is charged, passed kind of like school such a person is near the president, and i worked in the administration for 18 years, then maybe i would have had enough tension only with the presidential administration, but... some people with whom i communicated, probably before, horizontally, let’s call it that, now they want to show me that, probably, the pulse is still there, it didn’t just come from me, it once came from there, it can also come from there, i’m coping with it for now, as i understand you, maxim vladimirovich, that’s just the president when you were appointed to the position and told you that the midfielder needs to be returned to the place, yes, which he must occupy a position in the system of government bodies, that’s how you do it for yourself...

it will be difficult to cope with our some kind of foreign policy projects and ideas. secondly, of course, increasing demands on our embassies and foreign ministry units to carry out the tasks and instructions set by the president and the government. because, of course, the rhythm of external trade relations, external economic relations, political relations, should be more manifested through the foreign ministry. and today, when we have been distributed. separate powers to develop relations with organizations, some and countries on

members of the government, ministers, heads of organizations, of course, it is important that the foreign ministry remains the coordinator of this work and still concentrates this work on himself, in addition, you know, i’m always like - it seems like one theme has always been fighting a little, that we seem to live in the same space, we see the same events, but... we don’t see how the president’s proposal suddenly reacts to them, so let’s try to do this and we're already starting move, we are preparing some kind of preparation, that means a godsend. and then, in general , we develop it, i immediately told my colleagues, as soon as i came to the ministry of foreign affairs, why we always go, well, as if 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 get away from the fact that there will be orders, there will be expectations, but we still have to

deliver more shells than just carry out his tasks, that is, we have to initiate something ourselves and throw something there. on elaboration so that the president sees that the foreign ministry has an understanding of the current agenda, and we are also not a little divorced 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 in the same way as when -it was that the answer was from the ministry of foreign affairs such that you know, you put things in order there with some political affairs, economic issues, social character, give us this and we...

i will say, this rhyt was asked even before me, by sergei fedorovich olenik, in fact i i am very grateful to him, because many of the things that i have today in my work schedule of meetings and travel contacts, all of this was directly worked out by him with the mido team, but i am very grateful, and indeed i further strengthened this dynamics, because how after all, how you will show yourself in the first days, weeks, months of work, how you will establish... acquaintances, how you will position yourself in relationships with your colleagues, largely depends on how smoothly or not smoothly you enter into this community, or something, of foreign policy, which we really need it 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, with very serious diplomats,

let’s do this with the main allies, with the main allies, yes , if... to this we add a meeting with the minister of foreign affairs of india, if we add such brief meetings, albeit short, but with our colleagues from the central asian republics, sco member countries, then in principle, in literally 10 days i covered and some already the solution of some issues, indeed , of our closest allies, in fact, this is a great help in further work, well, i can even say special... gratitude, considering that my colleague from kazakhstan, in fact, as soon as the appointment took place in the country, so my visit to the foreign ministry, holding a meeting and a gala dinner there were immediately 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 have been found, now i understand that i have a friend

in central asia, he also understands that there is someone to rely on in belarus, but i also cannot help but highlight the meeting. like with lavrov, because i had a telephone conversation with him, literally on the second day after my 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 approaches of my colleague from china, mr. van, and of course, i was very amazed; the meeting , instead of the short time planned there, lasted 3 hours.

on tuesday, latvia banned cars with belarusian license plates from entering its territory. poland creates constant obstacles at the border for our heavy trucks. lithuania is generally concerned about the belarusian food basket for those crossing the border. mead once promised that he would give his asymmetrical answer. so what is the answer given by mit? ministry of foreign. the proposal was worked out, together with those interested, all the details discussed and 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 glad to our colleagues and partners from the eu countries to announce that from the 19th

8 am a new regime is being introduced for citizens of countries the european union of other european countries for which until now there was a visa regime, a visa-free procedure for entry through railway road checkpoints into the republic. belarus for up to 30 days, this visa regime will be valid until december 31 , 2024, as you know, we have the same regime for citizens of poland, lithuania and latvia, that is, when our closest neighbors are closing and making all sorts of obstacles to the development of cross-border cooperation, contacts between people, what with my point of view is a gross violation of all existing conventions within the framework of the osce, the council of europe, the european union, we... nevertheless, on the contrary, we show our openness, the desire to show our country to the international community, come, see, work with our people, do business,

take tourist trips, and most importantly, keep in touch with your friends, acquaintances, loved ones, but there is one caveat, for holders of diplomatic and service passports, for those who today, in fact, stands at the basis... of these sanctions things, the visa regime will continue, that is , it turns out that it’s better to see belarus once, yes, i think that the one who comes to belarus, he will come not just once, but after seeing the first time, the second, third and fourth will want to come, taking into account the fact that it will be a visa-free regime, i am sure that he will bring more of his friends who are easy -going, so we agreed, let’s go to belarus tomorrow, let’s go, well, as they say in the middle 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 in a bad game, won’t poland turn into a polish dead end of the silk road? also, as a matter of fact, i understand in general what the polish people, the polish nation are, they prayed in polish, you will understand that i have an aspiration, an inner mentality,

because i remember very well both my grandmother and my mother, they were so pure polish women, in fact, with all the characteristic deeds, hard work, such a rather sharp emotionality, at the same time with a very tough character, are very bright women in themselves, therefore. speaking, i imagine everything, speaking about poland, i would like to say that poland will never act to the detriment of to your interests. what they are doing today means only one thing: that it corresponds to their interests for today, at the moment, which means that there are some political things in poland that allow such an attitude towards belarus, which 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 for them at all, no matter how they swaggered there, these fugitives of ours did not agree with them. in fact,

it was our initiative, we, in the course of my the trips very much conveyed a number of documents there, which means that the documents explained in great detail the nature of things at the border, which was not only received with understanding, it was accepted by our colleagues, and at this point interest in principle disappeared in any intrigues on this part. the most interesting thing is that by cutting off this piece of transit, poland naturally attacks the interests of both its economic elite and those people who live in the eastern parts of poland, and those who, in principle, thought that they would profit well from the fact that latvia , lithuania transit was once stopped before poland stopped, now all goods will go through poland and will go to...

solving their polish issues, but there is one thing, but that in this way poland shows the entire european union that here, in this area, in relations economic between china and europe, from the point of view of the implementation of those tasks that the european union seems to have delegated to poland in protecting this border, preventing migration, cooperation with belarus on border and customs issues, today they are generally substituting the european union for this. what

they don’t want to do this, trying to get some bilateral things out of belarus, that is , you are hanging bilateral things on bilateral things, but don’t engage in petty blackmail at the expense of the interests of the organization you are in, because these migrants are a really serious problem today for the european union, problems with cargo flow are a serious problem for companies in the european union and chinese partners, but here they decided... to make everyone hostages, and i think that as soon as they see that this doesn’t work, then figuratively speaking, this topic will go somewhere, they will be forced to engage in cooperation 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, we will tell them everything, we will talk if they have some doubts, some comments, we are ready to listen to this, but we are ready to work , understanding that on this side there is a serious

national polish minority. osce, council of europe and so on, but today everyone turns a blind eye to this. let us then look at this issue bilaterally relationships, yes, a little from the other side, because it was poland and lithuania, our closest neighbors, that became a haven for ours. fugitives, including for people who are actually criminals, but love for them has recently begun to turn softly into, say, non-acceptance, yes, mass refusal in vonge, in lithuania in the same place, yes, declaring people a threat to national security, well numerous relocations of 40% of the companies that first left for lithuania, they have now left there, what is this today,

some kind of thing? new diplomatic maneuver? or like the golden calf, this is my favorite phrase, yes, another two years, and then they will just start beating you, like the children of lieutenant schmidt? well, you understand that poland and lithuania really didn’t like the politics or don’t like the politics of our president of our government, they thought of some feeling and continue to think somewhere that some other government, another president will be... poland wants to be more active in the western regions of belarus, as in ukraine, many people there still consider this their eastern cresses, with lost property, lands there, buildings and so on. of course, they want to play our main economic fiddle here, they want the economic expansion of the european union to go through poland, and this is completely different

money, completely different resources. to say, they were immediately hit on the ears, because this absolutely ruins any of these historical paradigms of the existence of the lithuanian state that have been created up to now, in fact, i remember, the first president of our visit to lithuania officially, it was, in my opinion, the ninety-fifth , in my opinion, the year, ninety-four, ninety -five, probably our president, signing an agreement on friendship and cooperation, several more agreements, the borders there remained

down, at that time we had, that means... another coat of arms is just a pursuit with tail down and with all the obvious things that characterize the difference between the coats of arms at that time, that is , of lithuania and belarus, there is generally some kind of dissonance, that is, like... such a cavalry charge in the style of the polish hussars, but it didn’t work out that way, and then 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 to those security guards who walk these drivers and motorcades around tikhanovskaya, maybe even more than around the president of lithuania. all these 4 years, what are they even doing, why is this necessary? i’m not even saying for ordinary taxpayers of these two countries why money is being spent on all this fuss if their work does not lead to anything good in relations between countries leads, in principle, we all already understand that they will not come anywhere, they will not sit anywhere and they will not give any chips to these countries, it will still be necessary to sit down and negotiate with the current government here with president alexander. lukashenko, that’s why today it’s more and more in this suitcase without a handle, and then this handle will also be thrown away. when some ties are destroyed, belarus creates practically new things at lightning speed. in general , diplomacy in the classical understanding is

something cautious, conservative in soft paws, right? and here, once, zimbabwe, once china, three scos, brix on the horizon, well, there are not enough fingers. where does this multifaceted activity come from and how does it work? it’s probably like a flow from two vessels, if someone wants to flow something and there is something to flow. our president constantly sets the task that in these conditions in which we find ourselves today, we must, firstly, carry out our task efficiently, and secondly, we must run as fast as we can to complete it. and, of course, we cannot afford that classical diplomacy which has been formed there for years, in some countries for decades and centuries.

we have to find a replacement for all this, 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 a need, they have a need, but today this is the only opportunity, because, well, the non-negotiability of our partners across the bug is absolute, and we always welcome any consultations, we are ready to be open to any negotiations on any topics, to resolve any questions. which is a big agenda, but today we are forced to go further to our partners, yes, where they are waiting for us, where they are waiting for us, where, and i’ll tell you what i can be sure of, that our partners are going there further, russia, the cis countries , china, our partners in africa, in asia,

they 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 such organizations to the sco, brix, regional organizations , which are in asia and latin america, here in the middle in the east, we are all adherents of that new world of multipolarity, and these adherents are becoming more and more numerous. we take only one sco organization. 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 than half the world's population. if we take the shos. in fact, 30% of the industrial production of the whole world, we add brix there and we don’t reach almost 50, and this is all the resource base, based on which we can solve political, economic, social issues, precisely in that region, well

read all the most famous analysts of this eurasian integration, the eurasian space, they all say that it is there that a new center of power will emerge in... the participating countries, partners and observers also participate in this, which means to resolve

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, for further resolving a bilateral track of issues, this is support in international organizations, and i say that within the framework of these organizations... we can rely and believe that our partners will not abandon us and will support us, and practice proves this, this is a solution to financial issues that also helps us today worries, this means promoting joint projects, for example , such logistics as a transport corridor from belarus to pakistan, through russia, through kazakhstan, uzbekistan, afghanistan, afghanistan in this regard, today the calm state spoke with the minister foreign. department of afghanistan, he told me a lot about how serious

trade is between these two countries today and even advised me to also go to afghanistan and further through afghanistan, so we still have a lot of stereotypes regarding countries, because we may not know them well, so but in fact, these are the broadest opportunities for multilateral and bilateral cooperation formats, behind which there are specific economic benefits, political positioning of the country, and... the most important thing is that this is a strengthening of the role of the global south and member countries of these organizations from the point of view 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 regarding brix, we currently cooperate very closely within this organization, we take part in all its segments, meetings at the level of ministers of education. on economic issues, you know,

the brics countries took part in these games, the president is going to attend the brics summit in october, which will be in kazan, and this will be his full-fledged participation there, taking into account the meeting in the bilateral track, while 10 countries are members, it means that the final, as it were, legal consolidation of the term brix partner or observer is being formulated, how they will come to this, we really hope that to sammi. brix in kazan, it will be finally formulated. and i want to tell you that taking into account the negotiations held with all the brics member countries, there is an agreement recorded that belarus is among the first partners of this organization will. for now, there is an expectation that there will be no more of them than the number of members, that is, also 10, so we have confirmation that all are members. the brix are ready to see belarus there as one of these ten, well

, i think that this is quite accurate for today. vaxim vladimirovich, here is the world, it is changing right before our eyes, and this is not a dystopia, not a scientific study, as they say, yes, information specialists, today we are talking about the fact that the distant arc, it has become much closer, even than some of ours immediate surroundings earlier, it just so happened that on the thirtieth anniversary of the first presidential election, right? the first ladies of zimbabwe and nigeria visited belarus, so from a diplomatic point of view, why is africa interesting to us and why is india interesting to us, since we already remembered it? well, in fact, i am in favor of using any mechanisms to achieve our goals in developing bilateral interaction with countries, that is, even if this is the first one.

further dynamics of population growth, and that is, the consumer market will only increase. the following are huge resources. according to many of the indicators. more than 30-40% of global reserves, and they are in great demand in metallurgy and industry recently. and look at the kind of independent policy that african countries have begun to pursue, more and more, untethering themselves from previously imposed agreements or agreements,

let’s call them the countries of the collective west, there is an increasing desire to build their own lives independently. as a colonist, they sucked out all the wealth, which sucked out everything, which means resources, and neocolonialism continues today, why do many people think, this happened with libya, how it happened, why this conflict happened in syria, in iraq, that means in its time,

why egypt did this too, the color revolutions shook, we know where it started, tunisia, because these... countries at some point moved from such a simple trade with the west, which was expressed like this: there, relatively speaking, there is oil, there are diamonds, bauxite, and something else, in exchange for goods, equipment of the west , switched to what they began to develop at home appropriate production, at some point there became a dilemma for western countries, and so it’s good, i buy oil from them, i buy some resources from them, but we have to drive something there. processing with the help of belarus russia there china and so on, what will happen is the pumping out of capital from european

countries, nothing good for them, in many ways the same paradigm was in relation to these wars of the west with china. there in the 18th century, when china simply began to actually pump silver out of the new world and from europe, switching to silver currency, not 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 here, purely predatory, and as soon as they begin to develop, these are all uninteresting countries, it is necessary to change the rulers, which means they need to be hooked on the luxury goods that they have learned during this time. to do with specialists who teach them competencies, this is what the west doesn’t like, because europe and so that everything is imported there, peoples, so today these peoples have recovered, today they are ready to develop, and we come there with technology, we come there with assembly plants, we come there and immediately love ends, love ends, well, india, well, the president

always says that we are with india should try to reach a level, well, nothing less than with china, a country in fact.