Deputy Foreign Minister I.Sekreta takes part in event dedicated to International Day of Peaceful Coexistence

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Deputy Foreign Minister I.Sekreta takes part in event dedicated to International Day of Peaceful Coexistence

On January 28, 2026, an event dedicated to the International Day of Peaceful Coexistence was held at the House of Friendship in Minsk. The event was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Belarus and was attended by representatives of government agencies, the UN Country Team, religious denominations, the diplomatic corps, and youth.

For reference: The UN General Assembly, in its resolution 79/269 of 4 March 2025, proclaimed 28 January as the International Day of Peaceful Coexistence to strengthen mutual understanding, solidarity and respect among individuals and peoples for the sake of building a safe and inclusive world.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Igor Sekreta, UN Resident Coordinator in Belarus Rasul Bagirov, and Chair of the Presidium of the Belarusian Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Nina Ivanova addressed the participants with welcoming remarks.

The Deputy Foreign Minister emphasized the particular relevance of the principle of peaceful coexistence in the context of a profound crisis in international relations, the escalation of existing conflicts, and the spiraling arms race on a regional and global scale.

Igor Sekreta recalled the inseparable connection link between peace and development, as stated by President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko back in 2005 at the UN Summit in New York: without peace there is no development, and without development there is no peace.

The Deputy Minister noted the peaceful nature of our country's foreign policy and recalled key Belarusian initiatives at international forums, which are unifying and aimed at dialogue, restoring trust, reducing confrontation, and strengthening security. Igor Sekreta paid special attention to Belarus' recent initiative to launch a broad international dialogue to overcome difficulties in relations between states in the common Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space and to develop a Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century, which our country put forward at the Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security in 2023.

The head of the Sustainable Development Department of the MFA Directorate General for Multilateral Diplomacy, Vadim Pisarevich, presented the Belarusian initiative to develop the Charter in more detail to the event participants.

The celebration of the International Day of Peaceful Coexistence was the first in a series of events envisaged by the Joint Action Plan for 2026, which was signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and the UN Resident Coordinator in Belarus on January 20, 2026.

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