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The union circulated a statement that the Boeing 737, registration number EW-001PA, belonged to “the same Mr. Lukashenko who ordered the shooting of protesters in Belarus.”
“We Lufthansa Technik activists do not forget the old tradition of international solidarity and stand shoulder to shoulder with the Belarusian workers,” said company employees.
The event recalls a similar situation 31 years ago, when workers refused to carry out a technical inspection on Romanian President Nicolae Ceau.etescu lainerį.
Lukashenko’s plane landed at Hamburg’s Fuhlsborat the airport in the ttel zone on October 13.
The Ver.di union expects the Lufthansa Technik management to refrain from imposing penalties if employees do not agree to work on a particular aircraft.
Ver.di has called on the Belarusian authorities to stop cracking down on protests, to grant the right to strike and organize independent unions, to release all political prisoners and to rehire those fired.
“We demand the resignation of Mr. Lukashenko and the holding of genuine democratic elections,” the document says.
A Lufthansa Technik spokesperson denied the report that employees had refused to carry out a technical inspection of a Belarusian aircraft believed to be Lukashenko, writes DW.
“Currently all of our customers’ aircraft in Hamburg are inspected on schedule,” said Wolfgang Reinert, an official at Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg, when asked if it was true that company employees had refused to perform an A. Inspection of Lukashenko’s plane.
The first to say that Lufthansa Technik employees refused to inspect Lukashenko’s plane was reported by Nasha Niva. DW also received a copy of this document.
Germany, France and Poland call for new elections
France, Germany and Poland call for new elections, according to a joint statement from the foreign ministers of the so-called Weimar Triangle.
Our three countries strongly condemn the violence and arbitrary arrests by the Belarusian authorities following the presidential elections, the results of which we do not recognize. They call for the holding of new free and fair elections in accordance with international standards and with the participation of observers from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, without interference from abroad, “said the joint statement.
Representatives in Berlin, Paris and Warsaw support OSCE efforts to establish a dialogue between Belarusian authorities and citizens, call for the release of political prisoners and begin cooperation within the framework of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism.
“The parties welcome the strong response of the European Union to the publication of sanctions, the implementation of which will be continuously monitored, and its willingness to take further punitive action, including against high-ranking entities and officials, including Aliaksandr Lukashenko,” the document says.
France, Germany and Poland are also asking the European Commission to draw up an economic aid plan for Belarus and its citizens.
“We welcome the German civil society program to develop cooperation with civil society in the Eastern Partnership country and Russia, which is open to representatives of Polish and French civil society,” the document says.
The program provides around 1 million euros to support civil society.
Belarus has been protesting for two months against the results of the presidential elections on August 9. Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994, has been declared the winner. The opposition and western countries consider that these elections are rigged.
On August 18, supporters of opposition leader Sviatlan Cichanouskaya, who is considered an election winner, formed a Coordination Council to organize a peaceful transfer of power in the run-up to new elections.
The Lukashenko regime considers the Coordination Council to be an unconstitutional body.
At present, practically all the members of the Presidium of the Coordination Council are in detention or have left Belarus.
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