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"This is yet another resolution deeply rooted in a vision of interference and stigmatisation with regard to Belarus, which clearly aims to meddle in the domestic affairs of that country.
When you delve behind the mystifying and Manichean language, the aim is clear: the EU does not accept the affirmation of sovereignty of Belarus and its definition of an independent policy, which is not in thrall to to the interests of the EU/NATO/US, and is trying to get round it.
The EU is therefore resorting to blackmail and to the imposition of sanctions, which it says can be lifted if this country adopts the measures that are required of it, for example: ‘the democratic opposition of Belarus and civil society must be included in the dialogue between the EU and Belarus’; ‘make full and effective use of the possibilities to support civil society and democratic developments in Belarus via the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, EIDHR’; or the ‘financial support to the independent Belarussian television channel Belsat’.
Would any of the EU countries agree to such conditions? The hypocrisy of this approach is clear, particularly when the ‘European family’ of so-called ‘democratic nations’ does not have a single word of condemnation for the genuine massacre perpetrated by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip or for the CIA’s criminal flights, in which it was, for that matter, complicit."@en1
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