Lithuanian-Polish initiative calls for embassy-in-exile for Belarus opposition
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The white-red-white flag associated with the Belarusian opposition (associative image). / E. Blaževič/LRT
Around 100 members of European Parliament have proposed establishing an embassy-in-exile in Brussels for the Belarusian democratic opposition.
The list of 95 signatories was gathered by Poland’s MEP Andrzej Halicki and Lithuania’s Andrius Kubilius, according to Politico reporters in Brussels.
“Based on Lithuania’s experience [.] in the early 90s, an information bureau [.] in Washington and later in Brussels was very important for our work before we established [official] embassies,” Kubilius told LRT English.
“They were strong lobbying centres” for Lithuania after the country declared independence from the Soviet Union in March 1990, according to Kubilius.