Aleh Vouchak suggested making Belarus “territory of Eurasian compromise”

Being a European country, Belarus could turn into an area for communication between Europe, Russia and Asia and to become a territory of Eurasian compromise.

 It was stated at the presentation of the “Belarus: terra incognita in the center of Europe or the territory of Eurasian compromise” brochure one of its authors, the leader of the Human Rights Center “Legal Address to the Population” (Kiev, Ukraine) Aleh Vouchak.

The authors of the edition also are the lawyers Igar Rynkevich and Jury Valchok.

Presentation of the brochure on December, 5 was not accidental. It is in this day when in 1994 a “Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances”. Belarus, Russia, Great Britain and USA signed the document.

According to Aleh Vouchak, this Memorandum can give new direction in geopolitics to Belarus. He and his colleagues assume that the strategy of Belarusan state development should be based on Article 18 of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and the given Memorandum.

But the Memorandum is not the international high-level agreement. For instance, it isn’t present in National Center of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus. “Practically it is called a declarative and political document. That is why our Ukrainian colleagues in particular call for a vote to increase the status of the Budapest Memorandum, to make it of a more legal character”, - noted Igar Rynkevich.

In the brochure “Belarus: terra incognita in the center of Europe or the territory of a Eurasian compromise” a brief information about the Belarusan statehood, geographic position and nature resources as well as its economy is given. It says that “Belarus can become strong only when it becomes a harmonic part of the outside world, when it finds its place in the world nations’ family”.

 The authors call their text a political and legal document and signify three earnests of success of the suggested path: an advantageous geopolitical position of Belarus, high level of industrial development and such features of Belarusan mentality as diligence, peacefulness and tolerance.

The authors of the brochure assume that as a European country Belarus could become an area for communication between Europe, Russia and Asia and suggest the concept of a territory of Eurasian compromise.

They write about the necessity to “immediately start working out the strategy for Belarus, if we want to save Belarusan country for our descendants. We are under the historical time pressure, and if we don’t start acting, we will disappear within the more organized and united nations and economic globalization will surpass the national one”.

“Our common strategic aim to form a common Eurasian house is rather feasible. It is Belarus that could become a territory of the global compromise of Europe and Asia, their link in the solutions of many difficult tasks of the modern times”, - says the edition.

The brochure claims that Belarus can become an assembly hall and a logistic center of the whole Eurasia. Geographic, industrial and transport potential of Belarus, as well as its human resources are conductive to it. According to the authors, Belarus has a peacemaking potential of mediation and cooperation on the Eurasian area.

“Belarus should become something more that Belarus. Modernization is the way to prosperity. Belarus is an area of the Eurasian compromise. Belarus can become a common peace house”, - these theses were proposed by Aleh Vouchak.

In the brochure there is a call for the states “to start the discussion and in the long run to realize the idea of creating a transport and logistics, trade-economic and financial mediator of the whole Eurasia”.