Seventeen members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have appointed an independent team of experts to investigate alleged rights violations in Belarus' August presidential election, Denmark said on Thursday.
COPENHAGEN - Seventeen members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have appointed an independent team of experts to investigate alleged rights violations in Belarus’ August presidential election, Denmark said on Thursday.
President Alexander Lukashenko says he won re-election fairly and is the victim of a Western smear campaign. “They’ll try, I suspect, and the crucial thing at that point is the action the international community takes,” Raab said, adding there should be room for dialogue - under OSCE auspices or otherwise - “coupled with really clear costs if the regimes in Moscow and in Belarus just do not move.”Minsk prevented the deployment of OSCE election observers by not inviting them, and has ignored repeated offers by the OSCE chairman, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, to visit.
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