US Ambassador to OSCE: “Belarus has chosen path of confrontation and isolation”
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9:31, — Politics
The United States Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley has reported to representatives of member countries of that organization about the US position relating recent events in Belarus.
In a special statement addressed to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna recent events in Belarus are recalled, including a brutal crackdown on participants of a peaceful rally on March 25 and a mass attack on independent journalists on March 27, Radio Svaboda informs.
“We call upon Belarusian authorities,” the statement reads, “to fulfill their commitments to the OSCE concerning human rights and basic freedoms, and to release Alyakzsandr Kauzlin immediately, as well as peaceful demonstrators and journalists who were detained and imprisoned”.
In the statement of the US mission to the OSCE touches upon the situation with the US Embassy in Misnk.
“Belarusian government that first insisted on Ambassador’s leaving, and then on reducing the staff of the Embassy twice, now has informed that the number of the US mission should be reduced even more. We see no reasonable grounds for such ungrounded demands. Moreover, staff of the Embassy feel pressure, and our diplomats have become an objective of derogatory demands in state-controlled media without any factual foundation”.
The statement expresses regret that “Belarus had chosen the way of confrontation and isolation, and not the path of defending human rights and freedom”.
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