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He is planning to meet representatives of the delegation of members of the Lithuanian Seimas formed to travel to Belarus, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, and promises to participate in the debate at the Center for Eastern European Studies.
Also planned is the meeting of P. Latška with Sviatlana Cichanouskaja, a former candidate for the Presidency of Belarus who currently lives in Lithuania.
On Friday, S. Cichanouskaja herself intends to address the United Nations Security Council remotely from Vilnius.
P. Latuška was Minister of Culture of Belarus in 2009-2012, after which he served as Ambassador to France, when he returned to Minsk last year and was appointed director of the Janka Kupala National Academic Theater.
S. Latuška was removed from this post in mid-August because he supported the theater staff’s position on rigged elections.
He then became a member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council. The Council, created at the initiative of Ms Cichanouskaya, should help Belarus to peacefully replace Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.
Before coming to Vilnius, P. Latuška participated in the Economic Forum in Poland.
Lukashenko said on Tuesday that he believed Latuška had “crossed the red line” when he moved to the Coordination Council. He said the opposition would have to “answer by law.”
Belarus has been plagued by protests for more than three weeks 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.
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