“It is quite obvious that the situation in Belarus has nothing to do with the Security Council.

The situation there does not pose any threat to peace and security.

This is an obvious politicization, a desire to bring this topic to the surface again.

The initiators here are our Baltic colleagues from Estonia, who bring this topic up for discussion not for the first time, ”TASS quotes him as saying.

Earlier it was reported that the 2021 Ice Hockey World Championship was to be held from May 21 to June 6 in two cities - Minsk and Riga.

On January 18, the IIHF Council decided to deprive Belarus of the right to host the 2021 World Ice Hockey Championship. The US State Department welcomed the transfer of the World Ice Hockey Championship from Minsk.