Pro-government Belarusian expert continues to insist on multi-vectorism
Belarus should not give up multi-vector foreign policy even after the obstruction that the collective West has imposed on the current authorities.
Political scientist Pyotr Petrovsky, close to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, wrote about this on his Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I am not a supporter of those who claim that the so-called “multi-vector”.
Firstly, it is not clear what these gentlemen mean by multi-vector. Secondly, the initiators of this term in relation to Belarusian international politics are not Belarusian, but foreign experts, mainly from Russia, who criticized the expansion of the corridor of maneuverability of the Belarusian negotiating position,” Petrovsky wrote.
He argues that Belarus did not abandon its obligations within the Union State, while Russia “single-handedly” resolved the issue, for example, regarding Crimea.
“Refusing active actions in the western direction means cutting off the wings of maneuverability of the Belarusian economy. After all, no one can guarantee that Russian oil workers will not continue to demand bonuses, gas workers will not dictate prices, financial industrial groups will put pressure on the privatization of the public sector, and barriers and exemptions for Belarusian products will not expand. Everyone is well aware of the formula: “the less profitable trade and economic relations with Russia are, the greater the need for alternative markets,” Petrovsky wrote.
At the same time, he condemned the “strategy of ingratiation and fawning before the West.”
“It was necessary to work with those who already asked to be allies of Belarus due to their political views. I mean, first of all, left and right populists, who did not support the anti-Belarusian resolution, are organizing rallies in support of Belarus. This lesson, the need to work with the entire political spectrum of the collective West, became obvious. To maintain the stability of the Belarusian economy, cooperation with the far arc countries should be increased to a greater extent, rather than with the West,” Petrovsky wrote.
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