In Helsinki, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the new President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Pere Joan Pons Sampietro, and the former President, Pia Kauma.
President Pons Sampietro invited Ms. Tsikhanouskaya to participate in an OSCE PA session and emphasized that keeping Belarus on the international agenda is a top priority for the Assembly.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya expressed interest in deepening engagement between the democratic forces of Belarus and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, as well as with national parliaments of OSCE participating states. She shared positive experiences from the participation of the Coordination Council and the democratic forces in the work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and expressed readiness to strengthen cooperation with the OSCE PA as well.
