The Russian delegation at the OSCE in Geneva organized an event on June 22 to discuss the crisis of the organization and a potential alternative. Russia’s permanent representative at the OSCE, Dmitri Polyansky, and Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus, Igor Sekreta, noted the international threat to peace posed by a new arms race, with no control and confidence building structures in place to avert the danger of new wars. Virtually all previous structures have been dismantled, they argued.
As a possible response to this situation, both Polyansky and Sekreta referred to the project for a Eurasian Charter on Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century, which both countries have been pursuing for several years. “The charter addresses not only security issues, but also economic cooperation, humanitarian exchange, and dialogue among civilizations, from Lisbon to Manila,” the Belarusian diplomat emphasized.
No state should be a member of a military alliance that systematically excludes other Eurasian countries, and no state should permanently host foreign military infrastructure that affects the core security interests of its neighbors, the proposed Charter demands.
