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"Mr President, the EU must adopt a basic position towards Belarus as soon as possible. We cannot communicate with a regime where there are political prisoners and where there is no freedom of expression for civil society, or a free media.
The situation after the election has shown that Lukashenko’s power is not unlimited. The EU should take advantage of that and help the country to shake off this authoritarian regime. A specific feature here is also the responsibility of the post-communist countries, based on their experience of regimes similar to the one in Belarus.
Our position must therefore be principled and founded on values. The EU must also take steps to isolate the people responsible for falsifying votes, to put a stop to contacts with highly-placed functionaries of the regime, and to freeze their assets.
On the other hand, there is a need to expand the circle of friends who prefer the values and principles that are common in the EU. We must offer an alternative to the current development as quickly as possible, based on the fact that a country with an authoritarian regime has no future in Europe."@en1
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