{"id":46591,"date":"2023-04-21T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T09:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/us-envoy-to-osce-praises-council-of-europes-cooperation-with-belarus-opposition\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"us-envoy-to-osce-praises-council-of-europes-cooperation-with-belarus-opposition","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/46591\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy to OSCE praises Council of Europe\u2019s cooperation with Belarus\u2019 opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>April 21, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>The United States appreciates the creation of the Contact Group on Belarus at the Council of Europe (CoE), said Michael Carpenter, US envoy to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;We believe the Contact Group\u2019s technical expertise in the areas of human rights, democracy, and rule of law can bolster democracy in Belarus following Russia\u2019s exclusion from the Council of Europe and the suspension of activities in Belarus after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Carpenter condemned the sentencing in absentia of Belarusian opposition politicians \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja and Pavie\u0142&nbsp;\u0141atu\u0161ka. The diplomat reiterated&nbsp;the United States&#8217; commitment to Belarusian people&#8217;s aspirations &#8220;for a democratic and peaceful future free of politically motivated prosecutions and repression.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On February 1, the CoE announced an action plan to support Belarusian democratic forces and civil society. It includes&nbsp;human rights training, workshops on the European Convention on Human Rights and study tours to the CoE headquarters for Belarusian lawyers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The CoE Contact Group on Belarus&nbsp;first met in November 2022.&nbsp;It includes representatives of EU&nbsp;institutions and Belarusian democratic forces and civil society.&nbsp;The next meeting is scheduled for June.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Belarus has not been admitted to the Council of Europe because it continues to use the death penalty. However, Minsk engaged with the Council on various issues, before the latter suspended&nbsp;all contacts with the Belarusian authorities in March 2022 over Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s support of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\t The Council of Europe is set to maintain and enhance relations with Belarusian civil society and the opposition in exile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21, BPN. The United States appreciates the creation of the Contact Group on Belarus at the Council of Europe (CoE), said Michael Carpenter, US envoy to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). &#8220;We believe the Contact Group\u2019s technical expertise in the areas of human rights, democracy, and rule of law can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-46591","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>US envoy to OSCE praises Council of Europe\u2019s cooperation with Belarus\u2019 opposition | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 21, BPN. 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