Reference News Network reported on August 30 According to TASS on August 29, the President of Belarusby LukashenkoHe said he visited China as a member of the Belarusian parliament and said: ¡°After returning from China, I suggested to Parliament that we should observe more closely how China develops. Not humbly speaking, the words I said at the time were very foreseeable, and I say that China represents the future. In terms of development, China is similar to our situation.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, data map

Lukashenko said that after becoming president, he paid attention to China and drew corresponding conclusions. "Now, I'm convinced I'm right."

The Belarusian president noted that Belarus is learning from China in its entirety. he said: ¡°I firmly believe that we should not just look at China, but also learn and practice.¡±

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Lukashenko criticizes President of Ukraine: China does not owe you

This week, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that Russia supports providing strong security guarantees for Ukraine, and does not rule out the so-called guarantees provided by members of the United Nations Security Council including Western countries and China. However, Ukrainian President Zelensky declared that "China is not needed as a country providing security guarantees." He claimed that China "failed to prevent" the war from breaking out.

Regarding Uzbekistan's remarks, my Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded on the 22nd and stated that China has always been aboveboard and upholds an objective and fair position on the Ukraine crisis. All parties concerned are clear about this. "We believe that all parties should promote a political solution to the Ukraine crisis based on a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept. China is willing to play a constructive role in this regard."

According to the Belarusian news agency on the 22nd, Belarus President Lukashenko mentioned Zelensky's remarks in an interview with multinational media in Minsk on the same day, criticizing his remarks for lack of consideration and excessive relentlessness.

On August 22, Lukashenko gave a media interview to the Belarusian News Agency

"(What he said), as if China should take action and stop the war! The responsibility to avoid war lies with themselves," Lukashenko reprimanded.

"And it must be clear that it would be extremely difficult to achieve lasting peace anywhere in the world without the participation of China, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and the guarantees it provides," he added. "Zelensky should think thrice before acting."

When asked if Belarus might become a "security country" for Ukraine, Lukashenko replied,"Generally speaking, when discussing security countries, people will first think of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, such as the United States and China, major European countries that are not members of the Security Council, and sometimes even mention Belarus."

"But when this idea was raised to me privately before, I couldn't help but ask: Is it really in our interest to provide that kind of security for another country?" He said.

Lukashenko said that Belarus, of course, could intervene in the situation in Ukraine, "but we are not in a hurry to do so."

In his view, Belarus's top priority is to take measures with Russia to prevent Ukraine from becoming a "springboard" for attacks against the two countries in the future. Because European countries are seeking to serve as security guarantors for Ukraine together with the United States, and all parties are already discussing issues such as sending troops to Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky data map

Several experts and analysts have criticized Zelensky, saying his remarks are neither unlogical nor unfair.

Wang Nansen, vice chairman and director of the Shanghai Center for International Strategic Studies, pointed out that in the past three years, China has been importing agricultural products from Ukraine, providing humanitarian assistance, and sending special envoys to mediate to promote peace negotiations.

¡°Zelensky¡¯s remarks are clearly dishonest,¡± he said, adding that Zelensky¡¯s failure to establish good relations with his neighbors has caused Ukraine to fall into the center of the Western-Russian game and become a Western agent, ¡°and now we must continue to act in the interests of others.¡±

Sun Qi, executive director of the Russian Center for Central Asian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, also told Russian media that Zelensky could not deny the important role that China, as a major power, played in mediating the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but he only paid attention to the NATO countries' delivery of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, exacerbating the intensity of the conflict, and turned a blind eye to the 12-point important principle initiative mentioned by China in the "China's Position on Political Settlement of the Ukrainian Crisis".

He stressed that China has always adhered to its consistent stance and called on the two sides of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict to resolve disputes through political means such as negotiations, "I think Zelensky has not fully recognized the ultimate consequences of the Western route."

Sun Qi further said that China will continue to play the role of "intermediary in promoting a political solution" instead of forcing one party to take specific actions, "all parties are sovereign countries, and China will not, like the United States, require these countries to fulfill certain obligations."

Wang Xiaoping, a researcher at the Russian Institute for Central Asia in Eastern Europe at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also said that in addition to clearly putting forward initiatives on a political settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, China has made considerable efforts to promote the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine.

"China is not just paying lip service, but systematically helping to solve problems," he stressed.

Earlier, Oleg Karpovich, deputy director of the Russian Diplomatic Academy, also said in an interview with Russian media that the security guarantee proposal put forward by the Russian foreign minister is feasible and practical. The core content of the security guarantee still needs to be negotiated with the five permanent members of the Security Council. "China's participation is crucial, and China's role in this process is indispensable."

However, Dmitry Ophiezerov-Belsky, an associate professor at the Institute for World Economics and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that the West may never accept China¡¯s involvement as a security guarantor due to concerns about China¡¯s rising influence in global politics.

He also noted that Russia is pushing for a peace agreement to fully resolve the Ukrainian crisis and ensure that the conflict ceases to occur and it takes time to build a solid security framework, and Russia is ready to conduct long-term negotiations for this," he added.