Ryzhenkov: The countries of the global majority are already fed up with the West's patronizing tone

Maxim Ryzhenkov. Screenshot from a video taken June 10, MINSK . Countries of the global majority are fed up with the West's patronizing tone. Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov stated this in an interview with the Rossiya 24 television channel, according to BelTA.

"In fact, many countries are already tired of the patronizing tone of the so-called collective West on any issue: political, economic, foreign policy, financial, and so on. And more and more countries (of course, forced to some extent to consider the possible consequences) are ready to build pragmatic relations among themselves, not seeing a panacea for solving all their problems in Western countries. Turning to other partners, finding other growth opportunities for themselves, these states, as a rule, are increasingly convinced that cooperation among the global majority brings greater development than direct relations with, say, the European Union. What's the point? They came, took the resources, sold the luxury goods to the elite—this logic has always been there, because Europe has virtually no resources," Maxim Ryzhenkov noted.

According to him, when countries in the global majority began to pay more attention to their economies and industries, it became clear that they could provide for themselves and had less need for EU products. "And by developing many competencies among themselves, they obtain additional products that are important to each other. And this presents an opportunity for our cooperation with CHINA, India, Pakistan, and African countries," the minister stated.
He noted that in recent years, Belarus's trade turnover with African countries has increased manifold, and the number of projects has grown tenfold.

"And what do we see? We were buying something like a billion worth of things from Lithuania (the same thing from the Netherlands), and half of that was re-exported from Africa, Asia, and so on. So, these sanctions forced us to shake ourselves up and look at where everything was coming from. And we offered them our powdered MILK , which we once sold to Lithuania and Poland. They made something out of it, sold it to Africa and Asia. We've now gone there directly. But we're not going there the way enlightened Europe is going. It's in their interests to hook people and just sell. You know, our President has this approach: we're going there as partners. That is, if we go there with our tractor, then that means the localization of that tractor will happen over time, and we'll transfer the skills for servicing the tractor and some primary assembly. We'll train local workers, creating jobs and transferring skills," he noted. Maxim Ryzhenkov.
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