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Belarus, EU and USA: “Alexander Lukashenko’s oath is illegitimate”

EU: “Solidarity with the Belarusian people” – In its note, the European Union also reaffirms the right of Belarusians “to be represented by those who choose freely through new elections”. “We are struck and moved – the press release reads – by the courage of the Belarusian people, who continue to demonstrate peacefully for democracy and its fundamental rights despite the brutal repression of the Belarusian authorities. We stand in solidarity with them and fully support their democratic right to elect their president through new free and fair elections under the supervision of the OSCE / Odihr. our expectation that the Belarusian authorities will immediately refrain from any further repression and violence directed against the Belarusian people and will immediately and unconditionally release all detainees, including political prisoners. ”

Usa: “Lukashenko is not legitimate” – Even a spokesman for the US State Department declares that Lukashenko is not the legitimate president of the country, stressing that the “elections of August 9 were neither free nor fair. The United States cannot consider Alexander Lukashenko the legitimate elected president of Belarus. “.

NGO: protesters arrested – Meanwhile, exponents for the defense of human rights denounce the arrests of the Belarusian police among the demonstrators who took to the streets to protest against the secret presidential inauguration of Lukashenko. The Visna group communicated the names of more than 115 demonstrators arrested in Minsk, the southwestern city of Brest and other locations in the country, reporting that officers used water cannons and tear gas in the capital to disperse the crowd.

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