Kaja Kallas, Excessive Consultant of the EU for International Affairs and Safety Coverage, and Marta Kos, EU Commissioner for Enlargement, have issued a joint assertion declaring the 26 January "elections" in Belarus a sham.
Supply: European Pravda just about the textual content of the assertion
Particulars: Kallas and Kos said that the elections held in Belarus at this time have been neither free nor honest, with ruthless and unprecedented repression of human rights, restrictions on political participation, and limitations on entry to unbiased media utterly stripping the electoral technique of any legitimacy.
They famous that the Lukashenko regime’s determination to ask the Organisation for Safety and Cooperation in Europe / Workplace for Democratic Establishments and Human Rights solely 10 days earlier than the elections disadvantaged this unbiased physique of entry to key levels of the electoral course of. "That is yet one more proof of a complete absence of credibility of those elections," Kallas and Kos asserted.
Quote: "For these causes, in addition to the involvement of the Belarusian regime in Russia's conflict of aggression towards Ukraine and its hybrid assaults towards its neighbours, the EU will proceed imposing restrictive and focused measures towards the regime, whereas financially supporting civil society, Belarusian democratic forces in exile, and Belarusian tradition. As soon as Belarus embarks on a democratic transition, the EU is able to assist the nation, stabilise its economic system and reform its establishments."
Background:
- Belarus held so-called presidential elections on 26 January, with self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko poised to safe a seventh time period.
- Lukashenko stated that he doesn’t care whether or not the West recognises the presidential "elections" going down on 26 January.
- Lukashenko’s canine urinated on the polling station the place its proprietor forged his vote.
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