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“My colleague, Mr. Biedron, who is the chairman of the delegation with Belarus, and I am the rapporteur for Belarus in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, we wanted to visit Belarus, see for yourself, talk to civil society, to the body diplomat, with the opposition parties, but it happened that my colleague was detained at the Minsk airport and deported to Vilnius, and my tickets were canceled. I went to the airport, they informed me that I have no right to fly to Minsk, “said P. Auštrevičius to BNS on Friday evening.
“The system works and protects itself from external influences and at the same time closes itself from the inside, not wanting to let in those who can say something different than what the government wants,” said the MEP.
He says that this is an “unprecedented” case and that Belarus is repeating the actions of Russia, which, according to the MEP, is “a very bad path on which the Belarusian authorities have remained.”
Mr Auštrevičius hopes that the leadership of the European Parliament will respond to this situation.
“It won’t really improve the relationship, they’re wrong and it won’t scare us,” he said.
Belarusian authorities announced Monday that the country’s current president, Aliaksandr Lukashenko, had won 80 percent of the vote. He votes and is re-elected for another term, protests against the falsification of electoral results began in the country, which ended in blood and arrests. Protests in the country continue on Friday.
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