EU Blasts Belarus Elections, Readies Sanctions Against Lukashenko Government

[SheltieLover]

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903831072/eu-blasts-belarus-elections-readies-sanctions-against-lukashenko-government

The European Union on Wednesday said it does not recognize the results of Belarus' Aug. 9 presidential election, calling the poll fraudulent and promising to sanction individuals responsible for the violence that has followed.

"These elections were neither free nor fair and did not meet international standards," Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, said at the end of an emergency summit on Belarus held by teleconference.

"The EU will impose shortly sanctions on a substantial number of individuals responsible for violence, repression and election fraud," he said.

"The protests in Belarus are not about geopolitics," he said. "This is in the first place a national crisis. This is about the right of the people to freely elect their leadership."

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[bullimiami]

1. Ready your sanctions for the US as well. Could be facing a similar situation.

[SheltieLover]

2. I was thinking this while reading article