The EU called for an emergency summit because of Belarus

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda advised protecting an emergency EU summit on the situation in Belarus. According to signal-means-profits, he made such a proposal during a cellphone communique with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the top of the European Council, Charles Michel.
"Taking into account the difficulty of the situation at the borders of the European Union, we suggest preserving an emergency EU summit to talk about the situation in Belarus," Nauseda then tweeted.

The press service of the Lithuanian President mentioned that the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, promised to tell approximately the opportunity of convening a summit within the coming days.

Earlier, a comparable initiative become made through Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki.

As stated by means of Rambler, on August nine, Belarus held presidential elections. According to the CEC, the cutting-edge President Alexander Lukashenko gained the election — he won greater than 80% of the vote. The most important rival of Lukashenko Svetlana Tikhanovski did not apprehend the election results and demanded a partial recount. After the quit of the vote, protests began in Belarus, which they're significantly suppressed by way of revolt Police, internal troops and police.

Svetlana Tihanovskaya refused to take part within the protest actions due to fears of provocations, and then left the territory of Belarus and went to Lithuania.

 

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