"We will do our best as Europeans to help mediate" with Minsk, Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, during a meeting with Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
Mass protests have continued since the election is violently suppressed by the regime.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday promised to help mediate the Belarusian political crisis, during a meeting with opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
"We will do our best as Europeans to help mediation," Emmanuel Macron told reporters, in English, after this meeting added to the program of his visit to Lithuania.
He specified that he intended "to return to the mediation of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) in order to make progress".
For her part, Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa declared that the French head of state "has promised to do everything to help mediate this political crisis in our country".
Mass protests continue in Belarus
This meeting was the most important of Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa since the presidential election of August 9, of which she claims the victory vis-a-vis the Belarusian President Alexandre Lukashenko.
The opponent has already met EU foreign ministers and the leaders of Poland and Lithuania, two European states neighboring Belarus that support the opposition against the reign of Alexander Lukashenko, in place for 26 years .
Mass protests have continued since the election is violently suppressed by the regime.
According to Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa, refugee in Lithuania since the vote, Emmanuel Macron promised to "do everything possible to release all political prisoners" in Belarus.