Andrei Sannikov: “More Stern Measures Would Help” :: Charter'97 :: News

Representatives of the Belarusian opposition urge international community to react in a proper manner to adoption of amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus by the so-called “chamber of representatives”. The international coordinator of the civil initiative Charter’97, former deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Andrei Sannikov said that these amendments, urgently proposed by the leader of Belarus and passed by the “chamber of representatives”, are criminal.

“Everybody should bear adequate responsibility for the attempt to adopt amendments to the Criminal Code of Belarus. And I believe that for instance the international community has a possibility to respond to that. We know who is at the back of these amendments, and for instance, it is possible to make a decision to issue an international warrant to arrest citizen Lukashenka, and about adequate responsibility of all those who elaborated and adopted these amendments,” Andrei Sannikov said to the Radio Svaboda.

Sannikov believes that proposals of some oppositionists to introduce visa sanctions against the so-called deputies of the chamber of representatives are too weak.

“Severer measures would help, as the things that the authorities are doing, this obscurantism which reigns in Belarus, is becoming dangerous for the society in Belarus. That is why so-called pinpoint sanctions would not help to solve the situation. International sanctions should be more serious”.