On August 9, Belarusians around the world marked 5 years since the peaceful protests against dictatorship. And on this day, Belarusians were not alone, receiving support from heads of state and leading global politicians, foreign ministries of multiple countries, and European institutions.
Politicians and political bodies who supported Belarusians’ aspiration for democratic change include:
🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 Foreign Ministries of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom (Joint statement on the Belarus election)
🇺🇸 United States’ Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
🇱🇻 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
🇷🇴 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania
🇦🇹 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria
🇩🇰 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
🇩🇪 German Federal Foreign Office
🇳🇴 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
🇸🇪 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
🇱🇺 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg
🇮🇸 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland
🇮🇪 Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland
🇨🇿 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
🇵🇱 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
🇸🇮 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
🇨🇿 Senate of the Czech Republic
🇪🇪 Margus Tsahkna, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
🇫🇮 Elina Valtonen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland
🇳🇱 Caspar Veldkamp, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
🇱🇹 Kęstutis Budrys, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
🇪🇺 NATO Parliamentary Assembly
🇪🇺 European Conservatives and Reformists Group
🇪🇺 Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
🇪🇺 Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament
🇺🇸 Steve Cohen, US Congressman
🇬🇪 Helen Khoshtaria, political analyst from Georgia
🇩🇪 Saskia Heller, German MP
🇪🇺 European Commission’s Directorate-General for EU Enlargement & Eastern Neighbourhood
🇪🇺 Marta Kos, EU Commissioner; Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative
🇪🇺 EUvsDisinfo
🇪🇺 Gert Jan Koopman, Director-General of the European Commission for Neighbourhood & Enlargement Negotiations
🇫🇷 Frédéric Petit, Member of the French National Assembly
🇵🇱 Michał Kobosko, Polish MEP
🇺🇦 Oleksiy Goncharenko, Ukrainian MP, President of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
🇳🇱 Thijs Reuten, MEP
🇸🇪 Björn Söder, Swedish MP
🇮🇹 Pina Picierno, Vice-President of the European Parliament
🇫🇷 Tatiana Ter, French MP
🇵🇱 Andrzej Halicki, Polish MEP
🇦🇹 Helmut Brandstätter, Austrian MEP
🇱🇹 Gitanas Nausėda, President of Lithuania
🇩🇪 Britta Haßelmann, German MP
🇩🇪 Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Vice-President of the German Bundestag
🇸🇪 Gustaf Göthberg, Swedish MP, Member of the Committee on Defense and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
🇪🇺 European Democrats
🇩🇪 Robin Wagener, German MP
Media coverage was released by:
🇩🇪 Tagesschau
🇵🇱 Rzeczpospolita
🇺🇦 Kyiv Post
🇪🇪 Baltic Times
🇺🇸 Reuters
🇵🇱 TVP World
🇺🇸 Radio Free Europe
