Belarus: MEPs call for suspending EU relations with Lukashenko

For MEPs, the EU must review its relations with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (illustrative image) Maxim Guchek / BelTA / Handout via REUTERS

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While protests to demand the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko continue in Belarus, MEPs are calling for an in-depth review of relations with the country.

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,

Joana Hostein

Until new free and fair presidential elections are held in Belarus, MEPs call for the EU's relations to be suspended with the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.

All financial payments to illegitimate Belarusian authorities must also be stopped, the parliamentarians insist.

Deputies particularly worried about the repression that continues in the country.

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Belarusian citizens are victims of arrests, humiliations, injuries from police forces supposed to protect them," said

Petras Austrevicius, Lithuanian deputy

.

All of this brutality is due to one person, Alexander Lukashenko.

 "

Alexander Lukashenko, who must appear today on the list of those sanctioned, insist the MEPs while technical discussions are still ongoing.

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 The sanctions list must be updated and extended to all individuals who have implemented Alexander Lukashenko's orders,"

said Viola von Cramon, German environmentalist MEP.

We must also add those who are responsible for disinformation and propaganda from Russia.

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We must continue to support the opposition in Belarus, add the PPE, Socialist and Renew groups, which call for awarding him this Thursday the

European Parliament Sakharov Prize

for freedom of thought.

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