{"id":192896,"date":"2026-06-22T19:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/192896\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:27:29","slug":"belarus-should-not-be-forgotten-pace-president-says","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/192896\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus should not be forgotten, PACE president says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pase_zasedanie_arhiv_fb_1128x752.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pase_zasedanie_arhiv_fb_1128x752.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pase_zasedanie_arhiv_fb_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pase_zasedanie_arhiv_fb_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pase_zasedanie_arhiv_fb_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pase_zasedanie_arhiv_fb_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 22,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Petra Bayr, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said that Belarus should not be forgotten while the world\u2019s attention is focused on Ukraine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile the world&#8217;s attention rightly stays on Ukraine, we must not forget about Belarus,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pace.coe.int\/en\/verbatim\/2026-06-22\/am\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bayr said<\/a>&nbsp;on June 22 during the opening meeting of PACE\u2019s summer session. \u201cAuthoritarianism hopes to exhaust our attention. We must not allow it to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The democratic representatives of Belarus are contributing actively to&nbsp;PACE\u2019s&nbsp;work in spite of all efforts of&nbsp;Alaksandar Luka\u0161enka\u2019s regime to&nbsp;undermine its credibility and to damage its effectiveness, Bayr said.&nbsp;\u201cWe engage with democratic forces from Russia and from Belarus to help them build foundations for their future countries where human rights and the rule of law are not just foreign concepts but integral terms and elements of their identity,\u201d she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut we also do this for us as European security will not be guaranteed without a democratic Belarus and a democratic Russian Federation and unless profound changes happen in these two countries, they will continue to be a threat not only to Europe but also to their own citizens,\u201d Bayr said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A delegation of the Belarusian opposition Coordination Council, including its members Alaksandra Mamajeva and Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka, are taking part in the ongoing PACE meeting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 22,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Petra Bayr, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said that Belarus should not be forgotten while the world\u2019s attention is focused on Ukraine.&nbsp; \u201cWhile the world&#8217;s attention rightly stays on Ukraine, we must not forget about Belarus,\u201d&nbsp;Bayr said&nbsp;on June 22 during the opening meeting of PACE\u2019s summer session. \u201cAuthoritarianism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":133692,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-192896","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus should not be forgotten, PACE 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