Nordic-Baltic Eight: Lukashenko Has No Legitimacy

The Baltic and Scandinavian countries call on the regime to release political prisoners.

The Nordic and Baltic countries "support the statement of the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas about the support of the Belarusian people", Pozirk writes.

The document, published on January 26 by the Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8), notes that the participating countries "stand in solidarity with the Belarusian people who aspire to a free, democratic, sovereign and independent Belarus." It is stated that "a future democratic Belarus has a place in the European family".

It is emphasized that the Nordic and Baltic countries "continue to support the democratic right of the Belarusian people to choose their leaders through free and fair elections". This requires rule of law, political pluralism, and full respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms as genuine democratic preconditions. None of this is, regretfully, observed in today’s Belarus.”

"Instead," the document reads, "the relentless and unprecedented level of repression, including arbitrary detention and torture, mass human rights violations, severe restrictions to political participation for opponents of the regime and highly restricted access to independent media have deprived the process that took place today of any legitimacy. This is also reflected in the decision of the Belarus’ authorities to invite the OSCE ODIHR mission only 10 days beforehand."

The Nordic-Baltic Eight countries "strongly urge the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners, and their effective rehabilitation. Aliaksandr Lukashenka continues to lack any democratic legitimacy".

The Nordic-Baltic is a regional cooperation format that includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden.

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