The Lukashenko regime wants only to continue and intensify repression
- Admin of the NAM
- 5 days ago
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"The regime in Belarus has absolutely no political will to change its repressive policies". noted Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet and Head of the NAM, Pavel Latushka, during a meeting with Adam Krzywosąd, Deputy Director of the Department of Global Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.
"The third Universal Periodic Review presented on November 3 in Geneva within the UN Human Rights Council, which addressed the human rights situation in Belarus, and the lack of response from the Lukashenko regime to more than 220 international recommendations on policy changes in the field of human rights, as well as the withdrawal from a number of international human rights treaties, indicate the regime’s desire only to continue and intensify repression", emphasized Pavel Latushka.
During the meetings, Pavel Latushka paid particular attention to the issue of extraterritorial persecution of Belarusians residing in Poland.
Issues of cooperation with Poland within the Group of Friends of Democratic Belarus at the OSCE were discussed separately.
The meeting included a detailed analysis and presentation of positions regarding the possible use of international legal accountability mechanisms for human rights violations in Belarus and transnational crimes against Belarusians abroad.
Pavel Latushka also provided information about the proactive persecution by the regime of Belarusian democratic activists abroad.
A representative of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that Poland would support Belarusian civil society in matters of protecting and restoring human rights and would assist in collecting evidence of illegal actions committed against Belarusians.
"The fact that Poland is one of the leading allies of the democratic forces of Belarus in human rights matters is an important signal of support in our work on the use of international mechanisms and instruments to achieve justice for victims of unprecedented repression committed by the Lukashenko regime, both in Belarus and abroad", emphasized Pavel Latushka.
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