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The Seimas on Thursday passed a resolution calling on the international community to respond to the events in Belarus and prevent Russia from leading the country’s politics.
91 members of the Seimas unanimously supported this resolution, among its speakers are the president of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and representatives of almost all the parliamentary factions of the Seimas.
The resolution names Alexander Lukashenko an illegitimate leader and calls on the international community to take any action to conclude new agreements with Russia as a crime against the nation, a de facto annexation of the country.
Russia is required not to interfere in Belarus’ domestic and foreign policy and to impose additional sanctions on Russia and the Belarusian regime in the event of an attempt to “limit the sovereignty of the country” against the will of the Belarusian people.
The international community is also called upon to offer the Belarusian people and their legal representatives a variety of political, economic, financial, visa and other assistance.
Belarus has been protesting for a month since the August 9 presidential elections, which were won by authoritarian leader Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western countries consider these elections to be rigged.
Mass protests in the country are being forcibly suppressed and the European Union is considering imposing sanctions on regime officials responsible for the violence and electoral fraud.
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