Today in Rome, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the Belarusian diaspora of Italy. Belarusians from 8 cities came to the meeting.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya then met with leaders of Italian trade unions, told them about the labor movement, and called for support for the striking committees in Belarus. The meeting was attended by leaders of the main Italian trade unions.
They had agreed that trade unions would fight to exclude Belarusian state trade unions from international associations and would support the striking committees that continued to strike in Belarus for their rights.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya invited representatives of trade unions to come to Minsk and meet the workers' movement. They also discussed how to influence Italian companies cooperating with the regime to force them to reconsider their cooperation. The Italian trade unions are already cooperating with the independent Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions.