MINSK, December 14. /TASS/. A range of leading international organizations, including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), have degraded almost completely, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said.

"Some international institutions, from the OSCE to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the International Committee of the Red Cross, have fallen into complete decay. They have turned into platforms for doublespeak and tools to serve and implement the interests of [only select] global players. It has reached the point of absurdity, where the European Peace Facility (an off-budget EU funding mechanism for defense-related initiatives - TASS) is actually funding the war in Ukraine," he pointed out, addressing participants in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Security and Intelligence Agencies from Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Member States.

According to the Belarusian leader, "the world is plunging into chaos with unpredictable consequences." "No one has yet been able to find even a fragile balance [between opposing forces]. The system of counterbalancing forces based on inter-complementary treaties has been destroyed, particularly in the field of nuclear deterrence," Lukashenko noted.

"In such a situation, there is an expanded role for intelligence agencies, whose primary task is to ensure the protection of their respective countries and people from internal and external threats," he pointed out. "The thing is though that state departments and foreign ministries have somewhat forgotten how to establish [diplomatic] contacts and, most importantly, how to maintain [international] ties, even under the most difficult of circumstances. In contrast, intelligence agencies know how to do that," he said.