UK is ‘on your side’, Johnson tells Belarus opposition leader
August 4, 2021
LONDON: The Prime Minister has said the UK is “on the side” of the pro-democracy Belarusian opposition leader.
Boris Johnson welcomed Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to Downing Street as international pressure continues to mount on the Minsk regime.
Ms Tsikhanouskaya said she was sure there would be further help from the British Government for the people of Belarus. The autocratic government of Alexander Lukashenko has faced added scrutiny in recent days following the treatment of Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, and the death of activist Vitaly Shishov in Ukraine on Tuesday.
Ms Tsikhanouskaya said she understood she could “disappear at any moment”, but added if this happened, the “movement” she had started “will continue without me”.
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