(ANSA-AFP) - VILNIUS, 29 SET - French President Emmanuel
Macron on Tuesday promised to help mediate in the Belarusian
political crisis during a meeting with opposition leader
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. "We will do our best as Europeans to
help mediate," Macron told reporters after the talks during his
visit to Lithuania. Tikhanovskaya said: "He promised us to do
everything just to help with mediation for this political crisis
in our country". The meeting was Tikhanovskaya's most
high-profile meeting since a presidential election on August 9
in which she has claimed victory against strongman president
Alexander Lukashenko. She has previously met EU foreign
ministers and leaders of Poland and Lithuania, two EU states
that border Belarus and have taken a lead in opposition
Lukashenko's 26-year rule. Mass protests that have continued
since the election have been met with a violent crackdown.
Tikhanovskaya, who fled to Lithuania after the vote, said Macron
promised to "do everything he can to release all the political
prisoners". (ANSA-AFP).
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