Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Addressed European Parliament

• 22.09.2020, 12:58

It is necessary to hold new free elections in Belarus to meet international standards.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has addressed a meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament. The Nexta telegram channel summarized her message to the EU representatives.

- To recognize Aliaksandr Lukashenka as illegitimate.

- To impose individual sanctions on all the regime's employees who were involved in mass election fraud and gross human rights violations.

- To consider criminal prosecution of those who have participated in using violence and torture.

- To create an international coalition to facilitate negotiations between Lukashenka and the Belarusian people, which will be represented by the Coordination Council.

- Not to finance the regime and to transfer support programs in Belarus from state to non-state bodies.

- To reconsider relations with state organizations close to Lukashenka.

- To support free, transparent and inclusive elections in accordance with international standards and under the supervision of local and international observers.