16 minutes agoBaltic States sanction Lucashencan, high-ranking Belarusan officials
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have indicated that they have imposed measures to stop travel to Belarusn President Alyaxasander Lucasenka and 29 other Belarusan officials, as pressure on the authoritarian leader over electoral violations and the crackdown on protests after the vote increases. We need peaceful dialogue and agreement between the regime and the people, [...]
We need peaceful dialogue and agreement between the regime and the people, but we see that the regime is not ready for this”, Lithuania's president, Gitanas Nauseda, has said.
“We see that we need to move forward and show examples for other states”, he added.
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Edgars Rincevics has called on the entire Evripian Union to take similar measures “immediately”.
In addition to Lucashenkas, the president's eldest son, Victar Lucasanka, who is a member of the National Security Council, presidential administration officials, the Central Election Commission, the Interior and Justice Ministry, the Prosecutor's Office and the Committee for Investigations, are also on the list.
Opposition candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who has fled Belarus after concerns about her and her family's safety, since her supporters have said she won the August 9th election.
However, Belarusan authorities have declared Lucashenkan the winner by more than 80 percent of the votes won.
Lucasanka's victory, which leads this state for 26 years, has sparked the biggest protests this state has ever seen from the independence earned by the former Soviet Union in 1991.
