{"id":45782,"date":"2023-02-20T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/eu-will-continue-to-call-on-minsk-to-release-political-prisoners-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"eu-will-continue-to-call-on-minsk-to-release-political-prisoners-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45782\/","title":{"rendered":"EU will continue to call on Minsk to release political prisoners in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>February 20, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The EU will continue to call on the Belarusian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners, the Council of the European Union has said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2023\/02\/20\/council-conclusions-on-eu-priorities-in-un-human-rights-fora-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">press release<\/a> on the bloc\u2019s priorities in UN human rights forums in 2023.<\/p>\n<p> One of them will be to call on officials in Minsk to cooperate fully with international and regional human rights monitoring mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p> The EU will speak out against human rights violations and abuses \u201cwherever they occur,\u201d and considers a General Assembly committee and the UN Human Rights Council to be the proper forums to address these issues. The bloc will lead on initiatives regarding Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, North Korea, Eritrea, Myanmar, and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>As the year 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Council reaffirms its \u201cunequivocal commitment to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights and to defend their universality,\u201d and advocates \u201cfor a strong and efficient UN, able to respond to the challenges of the 21st century.\u201d The Council also calls for \u201cadequate financing\u201d for the UN human rights system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 20, BPN. The EU will continue to call on the Belarusian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners, the Council of the European Union has said in a press release on the bloc\u2019s priorities in UN human rights forums in 2023. One of them will be to call on officials in Minsk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45782","articles","type-articles","status-publish","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>EU will continue to call on Minsk to release political prisoners in 2023 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 20, BPN. 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