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The committee report said that during a meeting on Tuesday to discuss political unrest in Belarus, a woman who claimed to be “Cichanouskaya and her staff faced problems with their computer camera, making it impossible to see them.”
Eventually, the participants realized that “something was wrong” and closed the meeting ahead of schedule, according to a rare report issued by a committee whose members include representatives of all parties in the Danish parliament.
Subsequently, the parliamentarians contacted the headquarters of S. Cichanouskaya and discovered that they had been misled by some pretext.
“I hope this is a great joke,” said Martin Lidegaard, chairman of the 17-member Foreign Policy Committee.
His deputy, Michael Aastrup Jensen, said that going forward, the committee will always insist that the participants’ video cameras be turned on during virtual meetings and discussions.
The committee’s report said nothing had been said at the meeting “that could harm Denmark’s foreign policy.”
This incident is under further investigation. The committee noted that such an intrusion was recorded for the first time.
S.Cichanouskaja withdrew to Lithuania after presidential elections in Belarus on August 9, the official winner of which was long-term authoritarian leader Aliaksandr Lukashenko. The opposition says the election was rigged; its results are also rejected by the European Union and the United States.
Belarus has been protesting daily since the elections, and protesters are demanding Lukashenko’s resignation. The government has cracked down on these demonstrations and has arrested many protesters and opposition leaders.
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