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Lithuania will provide political, economic and financial assistance to the Belarusian people and their legal representatives.
Svetlana Tihanovskaya is now forced to stay in Lithuania / Photo: REUTERS
Lithuania’s Seimas voted to recognize opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as the only president of Belarus.
This is stated on the website of the Lithuanian parliament.
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The corresponding resolution states that Lithuania supports the demands of the elected head of the Belarusian people Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and the Coordination Council to hold new and transparent presidential elections.
Furthermore, as of now, the country has agreed to treat any actions of the “illegal head of Belarus” Alexander Lukashenko in domestic and foreign policy, in particular the conclusion of new agreements with Russia, as crimes against the Belarusian people.
Lithuania will provide the citizens of Belarus and their legal representatives with political, economic and financial assistance for the holding of democratic elections in the republic.
The situation in Belarus: chronicle
- Presidential elections were held in Belarus on August 9. According to official CEC data, 80.1% of voters voted for current President Alexander Lukashenko, and 10.1% for his main opponent, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
- Thousands of Belarusian residents, who did not agree with the election results, went to protest demonstrations, clashes with security agents broke out. In the first days of the protests, thousands of people were arrested; later, many of them were assigned administrative arrests.
- Lukashenka has repeatedly stated that the situation in Belarus is being shattered from abroad and agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin to react jointly “in case the situation worsens in terms of external threats.” On August 27, Putin allowed the use of Russian security forces to suppress protests in Belarus.
- The European Union declared non-recognition of the election results and reached an agreement to impose sanctions on Belarusian officials in response to the falsification of voting results and the use of violence against protesters.
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