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Ambassadors of Western countries laid flowers at the site near the Pushkinskaya metro station in Minsk, where a participant in anti-Lukashenko protests died.
Statements from Western leaders, by no means in support of Lukashenko, were also not long in coming, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The ceremony, which was attended by ambassadors of EU countries, as well as the US ambassador, can without a doubt be interpreted as Western support for the actions of the Belarusian oppositionists.
“We are ambassadors of the EU countries, and I, as the head of the EU delegation, mourn the deaths that have already taken place in Belarus,” said the EU representative in Belarus, Dirik Schuebel. “We came here to express our solidarity with the victims of violence that we see in different cities of your country. We call on the Belarusian authorities to allow people to exercise their right to peaceful protest. We call for the release of all those who have been unlawfully detained.”
The protesters watching the demonstrative action applauded the ambassadors and chanted: “Thank you!” and the nationalist slogan “Long Live Belarus!”
“I believe there is only one peaceful solution to the current crisis in Belarus: it is necessary to hold new elections with the serious presence of international observers,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke on the topic while in Slovenia.
At the same time, some EU representatives made harsher statements regarding Minsk and even Moscow. In particular, Member of the European Parliament from Poland Jacek Sariusz-Wolski proposed, in connection with the events in Minsk, to introduce sanctions not against Belarus, but against Russia.
“Otherwise the punishment will be the sword, not the hand. If we neutralize Russia and the threat of direct intervention and annexation, then I think Belarusians themselves will cope with the construction of democracy,” the politician said on Polish Radio.
A protester died near the Minskaya metro station on August 10 during a spontaneous protest. According to the official version, the cause of death of the man, whose identity has not been revealed, was the explosion of a homemade explosive device in his hands, which he intended to throw at a law enforcement officer. Protesters turned the site of the death into a makeshift memorial.
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