“The Security Council has a responsibility to prevent violent conflicts. Therefore, it is our duty to warn in advance and raise the level of awareness, ”the head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry Urmas Reinsalu is quoted as saying.

According to him, external interference in the affairs of Belarus threatens the peace and security of not only the country itself, but the entire region.

Earlier, the UN called for the release of all those detained at the protests in Belarus.

According to the official representative of the UN Secretary General Stefan Dujarrik, the organization expects the Belarusian authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the use of force against those detained during the protests in the republic.