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“Our struggle has united Belarusians not only in our homeland, but throughout the world,” Chichanouskaya told several dozen protesters with red and white flags in the German capital on Monday night.
Cichanouskaya, who declared victory in the disputed August 9 elections, left the country shortly after pressure from his country and is trying to mobilize international pressure on the Minsk regime as protests continue in the streets of Belarus.
S.Cichanouskaja met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Lithuania last week, and will meet with Merkel on Tuesday.
“We will talk about the situation in Belarus and I think the two women will always know what to talk about,” Chichanouskaya told AFP.
Merkel, whose country holds the presidency of the European Union this semester, has said that Germany does not recognize Lukashenko as the winner of the presidential elections and has condemned her government’s violence against protesters.
“Today I learned that Belarusians in Berlin and other German cities had barely known each other before,” Chichanouskaya told protesters.
“But this summer, Belarus and the Belarusians have come together,” he said. – We don’t know how long this fight will last, but we need your help. The government has not listened to us for 26 years and it is not listening to us now. “
AFP / „Scanpix“ nuotr./Sviatlana Cichanouskaja Berlyne
The United States and the European Union on Friday announced long-awaited sanctions against Belarusian officials, to which Minsk and its ally Moscow reacted angrily.
Meetings
Merkel will accept the former candidate in the Belarusian presidential elections as “the most important figure in the Belarusian opposition,” Chancellor Steffen Seibert said on Monday. He said he could not comment in advance on what would be discussed during the meeting between S. Cichanouskaya and A. Merkel.
“Scanpix” / AP nuotr./Sviatlana Cichanouskaja Berlyne
Earlier, in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel, S. Chichanouskaya said that he planned to discuss the prospects for mediation in Berlin if negotiations between the Belarusian government and the opposition began.
The German Foreign Ministry, for its part, announced that Cichanouskaya will meet with the country’s head of diplomacy, Heiko Maas, on Wednesday morning.
In addition, meetings of the Belarusian opposition leader with representatives of the main German parties are planned.
Cichanouskaja will leave Germany for Slovakia to attend the annual international security conference “Globsec Bratislava Forum”, his representatives announced.
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