According to the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, he drew attention to one of the serious challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which is "unilateral coercive measures or sanctions" imposed by Western countries against states they "unlike", including Belarus.
"The UN summit on sustainable development goals, scheduled for September 2023 on the sidelines of the General Assembly, should become a platform for an honest discussion of the problems of the negative impact of sanctions on the prospects for global socio-economic and environmental development," RIA Novosti quoted the statement as saying.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the imposition of illegal sanctions is damaging the international legal system.
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, supported the idea of creating an anti-sanctions club of countries to combat illegal restrictions imposed by Western states.