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According to his Twitter message, the country continues to experience violence against critics of the sixth president-elect Aliaksandr Lukashenko, and there is no political dialogue.
The Latvian head of diplomacy will present Riga’s position during a meeting with his colleagues from other EU countries on Friday.
The bloc’s foreign ministers intend to hold an extraordinary meeting on Friday to review the situation in Belarus, Lebanon and the eastern Mediterranean, said Josep Borrell, head of community diplomacy.
“We will discuss urgent issues and the situation in the eastern Mediterranean, the presidential elections in Belarus and the events in Lebanon,” he wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
The European Union is seriously concerned both by the situation in Belarus, where unrest erupted after the controversial presidential elections, and by the growing tensions between Turkey and Greece over oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean.
On Tuesday, the bloc condemned the elections in Belarus, acknowledging that they were “neither free nor fair.” Borrell threatened to impose sanctions on “those responsible for the violence observed, the unjustified arrests and the falsification of the electoral results.”
VIDEO: Protests in Belarus for the fourth day in a row: people rebel against brutal violence by special forces
The EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting scheduled for Friday will take the form of a video conference, which means that ministers will not be able to make political decisions, but will have, for example, the right to instruct officials to assess the Available options.
“This would speed up the process of taking concrete actions,” explained a source from the EU institutions.
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