NATO countries’ declarations of commitment to their 2011 Vienna Document obligations remain inconsistent

Chief of the International Military Cooperation Department, Assistant to the Defence Minister for Foreign Military Policy Colonel Valery Revenko reported:

“NATO countries’ declarations of commitment to their 2011 Vienna Document obligations remain inconsistent”.

Valery Revenko informed that Poland not only failed to provide Belarus with annual information about its military forces, but also failed to send information about “Dragon-24” exercise within the required 42 days:

“Dragon-24” is both a notifiable exercise and a subject to mandatory observation: according to official figures, about 20,000 people from 10 countries of the bloc will take part in it. However, the obligation to send us an invitation was also ignored by Poland”.

This problem was raised at the OSCE FSC meeting on 14 February with a call on to return to implementation of treaties and not to follow the path of final destruction of the international security architecture. As expected, there was no constructive reaction from Poland.

Another discriminatory fact was noted, this time on the part of Canada. By holding a conference of verification centers “under the OSCE flag”, Canada decided not to take into account the interests of all participating states and excluded Belarus from the list of invitees.

The chosen format of the event not only indicates the West’s unpreparedness to restore dialogue, but also speaks of the desire to continue to follow the path of destruction of the established system of international relations, devaluing the OSCE as an inclusive security mechanism.

Photos from Telegram channel of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus