the first, and certainly, is the strengthening of our defense capability. for this, there are tools and a union state, our military-political union, a joint military doctrine of the state of the union state of belarus, russia. for this, there is an organization of a collective security treaty, which, with all the nuances, has proved its viability in kazakhstan and is now actively working on the situation in the armenian-azerbaijani region border. and i think that this organization will continue to grow in the foreseeable future. we will see, and serious steps in this direction, belarus chairs of this organization in 2023. and we plan to seriously work to ensure that this structure additionally actively contributes to our defense capability and security, in addition to that. strengthening our

own defense capability with you. naturally, we are talking about confidence building measures with neighbors. it is difficult to talk about confidence building measures now with some of our neighbors, but nevertheless they exist and we are implementing them both within the framework of the osce and within the framework of other international agreements. we are transparent. we we invite both our partners and our partners in quotation marks to the exercise, and we continue all the proper diplomatic work in international global forms and in the disarmament convention and within the framework of the general assembly, where belarus is the traditional author of the resolution of its opposition to the development of new types of weapons mass destruction. that's it, this is our image, therefore, when we have been talking for many years that belarus is, well, this is a regional security provider. in my opinion. this is

an absolutely responsible position, we ourselves we also continue to lead. here, if we imagine, purely hypothetically, that we would offer our country to nato as a partner. that's right. we are ready to enter tomorrow. how quickly all claims and accusations of violation of rights and freedoms in belarus would fall away, this is the cliché of the last dictatorship of europe well, and other tinsel that surrounds us now for many years, how quickly it would go away in your opinion, if let's imagine the twentieth year, yes and imagine that the protests won. here we have already discussed with you about what in my opinion. at as a result, our country would naturally have chosen the liberal-democratic path of development. and accordingly, we have made a geopolitical u-turn. well, yes, that is, moreover, diametrically opposite neutral opposites. in my opinion. it would lead to the collapse of our colossal

socio-economic model. and in fact, it would lead to the loss of that state, as we understand it in its current form, because to destroy the ties that we have been building with russia for 30 years and end up at a level several times lower than the situation in ukraine in 2014, because at that time ukraine's ties with russia were much less intense . e with russia to lose that level of trust and, accordingly, energy prices. this is a huge huge loss. it would be a disaster for you and me when the state and for the majority of the inhabitants of this country. so what do you really want to emphasize? imagine now what we will say tomorrow. accept us and us

will accept, well, they will most likely accept what remains of us. yes, but they will be happy. yes, but conceptually, i want to say that the west , uh, lives peacefully and exists with a number of countries where well, not weekly, but very regularly they cut off heads, where the word is democracy. e, that is, it is not present, not like in the constitution a in general in the political discourse of these countries. it’s just that these states represent, uh, a certain political or economic significance, whether for the united states or for the european union, therefore, of course, if at some stage we began to position ourselves as the fruit of e interests. uh, that means the west, i think that the state and our neighbors would be very little, among other things, to remember some moments e of our internal order. in fact, belarus is the price for

the west in that we are the shortest and most equipped road, a straight line without mountains with 600 km of wonderful concrete between the western border of belarus and the border of the russian federation. that is, this is an absolute clear geopolitical factor, and this space is the space that is that asset who is looking for the western elite in terms of advancing their interests to the east to weaken belarus means to weaken russia to weaken russia to weaken. belarus means weakening china, which is why the west has very clear, simple interests of its own here, which is why they supported and registered the 2020 protests. first