Leaders of the Belarusian opposition took part, on May 23, in the Brussels-based meeting of the European Parliament’s (EP) Committee on Foreign Affairs. All of them but Tatyana Korotkevich, the 2015 presidential hopeful from the Speak the Truth campaign (STC), signed a joint statement about the upcoming (September 11) parliamentary elections in Belarus. In it, they criticized the allegedly fraudulent way the Belarusian Central Electoral Commission agreed to take into account the recommendations of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) (see EDM, May 25). They also observed that Belarusian …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation