For the fourth year in a row, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has taken part in the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, which each year brings together dozens of heads of state and government, hundreds of ministers, leaders of international organizations, as well as heads of major companies and civil society representatives.
On the sidelines of the forum, Ms. Tsikhanouskaya met with a number of political and public leaders:
- 🇱🇹 Gitanas Nausėda – President of Lithuania;
- 🇨🇦 Anita Anand – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada;
- 🇨🇦 Mélanie Joly – Minister of Industry of Canada;
- 🇬🇧 Boris Johnson – former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom;
- 🇨🇿 Andrej Babiš – Prime Minister of the Czech Republic;
- 🇲🇩 Alexandru Munteanu – Prime Minister of Moldova;
- 🇺🇳 Annalena Baerbock – President of the UN General Assembly;
- 🌍 Mark Rutte – NATO Secretary General;
- 🌍 Agnès Callamard – Secretary General of Amnesty International;
- 💼 Ruth Porat – President and Chief Investment Officer of Google;
- 💼 Szymon Midera – CEO of PKO Bank Polski.
In addition, Ms. Tsikhanouskaya took part in a number of public events within the framework of the World Economic Forum, including the discussion “Can Russia Sustain a Wartime Economy?”, the IGWEL roundtable “A New Era of Geopolitical Uncertainty”, and the panel discussion “Democracy in Exile: How Belarus Continues Its Struggle for Freedom”.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: “Davos is another opportunity to tell global leaders about Belarus and remind them of those who remain imprisoned for wanting to live in a free country. Belarus must remain on the international agenda so that the world does not grow accustomed to repression and injustice. Through such meetings, we strengthen international solidarity with the Belarusian people and continue our joint work toward the release of political prisoners and a democratic future for Belarus”.
