Cichanoŭskaja meets with EU, US officials on sidelines of UN General Assembly

September 24, Pozirk. Belarusian opposition leader Śviatłana Cichanoŭskaja has held talks with European leaders and US officials on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s 80th session in New York, her press office reported.
She met with Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Czech President Petr Pavel and Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever.
She also had conversations with European Council President António Costa, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and the foreign ministers of Austria, Germany, Iceland, Poland, Ukraine and Croatia.
The politician also met with Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine who had visited Minsk in June to meet with Alaksandar Łukašenka, as well as with Republican Congressman Joe Wilson and Gediminas Varvuolis, Lithuania’s ambassador to the United States.
“Participation in the General Assembly is an opportunity to reiterate that while thousands of people remain imprisoned in Belarus as its regime continues repression and supports the war against Ukraine, the international community must keep the country on the agenda. The world should know that Belarusians continue to fight for freedom and independence,” her press office stressed.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Maksim Ryžankoŭ is also attending General Assembly events. He has held talks with the foreign ministers of Angola, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Oman and Zimbabwe.
Amid tension with the EU that remains high since the 2020 presidential election marked by police violence and allegations of vote rigging, Minsk has shifted its diplomatic energies to the Global South.
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