Seimas Committee: To go to Minsk: when you leave, you must do something, not just walk around Minsk



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“The board referred the matter to the committee, we discussed it in the committee today and decided by consensus that it would be appropriate to send such a delegation when possible, and we will coordinate the program with the Foreign Ministry,” the committee head told BNS.

“Once we are gone, we have to do something, not just walk around Minsk to do it, we have to find out who we can meet, who we can mediate, if mediation is an opportunity, now it’s hard to say, the situation changes everyone the days, “Bernatonis said. .

One of the initiators of the delegation, the conservative Sigismund Pavilionis, says that one of the options under consideration would be to go to Belarus next week.

I am pleased that the initiative has been blessed, a list of delegations from virtually all parties has been provided and it has been agreed that we will now seek a suitable date for such a visit. After the meeting, I spoke with the representatives of the Polish and Ukrainian parliaments about Belarus, one of the options for us to take place next week, “said BNS. Pavilion.

“We hope that the Belarusian regime will let us in, but in any case we will go to the nation and speak as representatives of the nation with representatives of the nation who have been deprived of their right to vote and are currently being brutally destroyed,” said the conservative. .

The initiative put forward by opposition conservatives to send a delegation to Minsk was presented on Friday to the Seimas Board, which presented a proposal to formally formulate it to the Seimas Foreign Affairs Committee.

It is proposed that the delegation of members of the Seimas be headed by the president of the European Affairs Commission, Gediminas Kirkilas, and that the Conservatives Ž. Pavilionis, Ingrida Šimonytė, Emanuelis Zingeris, Laurynas Kasčiūnas, representatives of the “peasant” faction Tomas Tomilinas, head of the Human Rights Committee Valerijus Simulikas, the liberal Gintaras Vaičekauskas, the social democrat Rasa Budbergytė, leader of the Aušrinė Armonaitona Freedom Party.

The Seimas will convene an extraordinary session next Tuesday on the situation in Belarus. It is planned to hear from representatives of Belarusian civil society and the opposition about the political and human rights situation in the country, what international support Belarusian society expects.

It is planned to confirm Lithuania’s position on the illegality of Aliaksandr Lukashenko, ask the Lithuanian Government and the entire European Union to adopt sanctions against the representatives of the Belarusian regime. Decisions on assistance to affected Belarusian citizens will also be considered.

The session is convened at the request of more than a third of the Seimas members of the opposition Lithuanian Christian National Democratic Union, the Liberal Movement, the faction of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, the mixed-member group of the Seimas and the ruling faction of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party.

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