Belarus released 52 prisoners, including the EU employee, after the appeal of the US President Donald Trump, while Washington and Minsk considered approaching which many European leaders had experienced skeptical.
Trump had previously called the Belarus President Aleksandar Lukashenk, the close ally of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, to release the detainees that the American leader described as “hostages.”
Trump increased the US engagement with an authoritarian state, sending several delegations to Minsk this year. His predecessor, former President Joe Biden, tried to additionally isolate the eastern European nation after serving as a springboard for expanded Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022. Years.
In return for Lukashenkov Gest, Washington will approve the mitigation of the Sanctions Belarus National Airline Belavia, enabling it to service components for its planes, which includes Boeing’s airplanes.
It was the largest group of prisoners who pardoned an authoritarian leader, who seeks to fix relations with the United States after years of insulation and sanctions.
But it was far less than 1,300 or 1,400 prisoners whose release Trump asked for in a conversation with Lukashkak last month and in later publications on social networks.
The Belarusian opposition in Exile stated that one of the 52 prisoners, the Milk Statkevich, refused to enter Lithuania, where they were brought free from prisoners. The images from the webcam showed him sitting in the lower zone on the border, and the Lithuanian borderer said he stayed in Belarus.
It was not immediately clear why the Statkevich, who ran against Ljunšanka in the 2010 elections, but the opposition in Exile says that they should be right to stay in Belarus, instead of undering what they call forced deportations.
John Coale, who led the American delegation to Minsk, told the interview for Reuters to get rid of all those prisoners, adding to believe that Lukashenko wanted a change.
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
