UN European headquarters building. Archival photoMINSK, July 11 Permanent Representative of Belarus to the UN Office in Geneva Larisa Belskaya said that Western states do not want to respect differences between countries and recognize the republic's independent choice of its own development path. As stated in a press release Belarusian Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, the organization's Human Rights Council during its 50th session considered another politicized draft resolution on the human rights situation in Belarus, submitted by the EU and its partners.
The UK approved the idea to create a Eurasian Court of Human Rights» This initiative was put to a vote and as a result, more than half of the council members did not support it, thereby demonstrating their disagreement with the assessments and approaches of Western countries regarding Belarus … Belskaya described the EU resolution as unprincipled interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. She noted that… biased resolutions initiated by Western states that do not want to respect the differences between our countries and recognize Belarus' independent choice of its own development path do not work,» the press release says. According to him, the Belarusian diplomat stated that the provisions of the resolution are aimed at hushing up and distorting the real situation in Belarus and state policy to promote various categories of human rights. «In contrast, the resolution promotes and encourages all practices and structures that purposefully work to discredit the state, including marginal groups of the so-called opposition operating in the EU countries, supported by their Western sponsors,» the press release says. Belarus has criticized Western countries for the fact that it is they who, with their illegal sanctions policy and the destruction of interstate contacts, violate the rights of Belarusians and citizens of other countries. She stated that the government of Belarus does not recognize the mandate of the special rapporteur, who acts exclusively in line with the interests of the EU and the United States and their vision of the development of the Belarusian state. in 2020, to undermine social and economic stability with “sanction packages” in 2021 and 2022, to rock the situation by increasing systemic disinformation work against the Belarusian leadership and sanctions pressure on the country against the backdrop of the conflict in Ukraine,” the press release emphasizes.
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