Cichanoŭskaja calls on OSCE to bar Belarusian MPs from all events
February 24, BPN. Belarusian opposition leader Śviatłana Cichanoŭskaja has called on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to bar “Łukašenka’s deputies” from all of its events.
Addressing the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s standing committee in Vienna, she suggested that members of the Belarusian democratic movement could join the assembly’s work through factions.
“Let’s make the voices of free Belarus loud and clear. I understand that there are regulations and certain limits. But these are not conventional times and they need non-conventional solutions,” she said.
Cichanoŭskaja’s key advisor Franak Viačorka told BPN that the Belarusian delegation, as well as the Russians and the Azerbaijanis, opposed giving her the floor. Belarusian MP Andrej Savinych said she was on a wanted list for an attempted coup, and left the hall together with his aids.
On February 23, Cichanoŭskaja called on the OSCE to restart the Moscow Mechanism for recording and investigating human rights violations in Belarus.
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