Leader of democratic Belarus Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Odile Renaud-Basso met on the margins of the Bled Strategic Forum.
They discussed the current situation in Belarus. Ms. Renaud-Basso outlined the EBRD’s activities in the country, explaining that the bank has not been doing any sovereign investment in Belarus for a long time, including prior to last year’s election. The EBRD focuses instead exclusively on the private sector and does not have plans to do any sovereign investment for the foreseeable future.
Ms. Tsikhnouskaya thanked Ms. Renaud-Basso for the principled position which the EBRD has taken since the August presidential election in Belarus and expressed confidence that democratic change in Belarus would create favorable conditions for the bank to fully resume its activities.
