A meeting of the “For a Democratic Belarus” Parliamentary Group took place in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Participants included:
- Anatoli Liabedzka, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Advisor on Parliamentary Cooperation;
- Sviatlana Shatsilina, Head of the Mission of Democratic Belarus in Ukraine;
- Iaroslav Chornogor, Director of the Russian and Belarusian Studies Program at the Ukrainian Prism Foreign Policy Council.
Sviatlana Shatsilina presented the Mission of Democratic Belarus in Ukraine.
The meeting also addressed:
- legislative initiatives concerning the legal status and integration of Belarusians in Ukraine;
- parliamentary patronage over individual cases involving Belarusians, including volunteers, their families, and activists;
- the organization of the Path to Freedom Conference and the Ostrogski Forum;
- drawing on the experience of the Verkhovna Rada to prepare the Positive Alternative, a package of reform and legislative proposals for Belarus;
- engaging MPs in the Libereco campaign of symbolic godparenthood for political prisoners;
- cooperation with the Mission of Democratic Belarus in Ukraine and within international parliamentary organizations.
Additionally, the parties discussed the possibility of holding a meeting of the International Alliance of Parliamentary Groups “For a Democratic Belarus” in Kyiv in 2027.
