US Senate Introduced Resolution Abolishing Election Results in Belarus

The resolution raises the question of the need to develop and impose new sanctions.

The U.S. Senate introduced a draft resolution. It notes that the presidential election held in Belarus last August was "neither free nor fair" and that, therefore, its results cannot be recognized, reports Voice of America.

The resolution was submitted to the Foreign Affairs Committee by a bipartisan group of 13 senators, including Bill Keating, Marcy Kaptur, and Brian Fitzpatrick.

The resolution calls for the continuation of targeted sanctions, developed jointly by the United States, the European Union, and several other nations against the Lukashenka regime, which has grossly violated human rights, and in particular, against the Belarusian Electoral Commission. Its activities led to the falsification of the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The resolution raises the need to develop and introduce new sanctions against the Belarusian state-owned companies which infringe the rights of workers for participating in pro-democratic events. The authors of the document called for an international investigation in this regard.

At the same time, they offer to increase financial support of democratic movements, organizations, their activists and independent media in Belarus by foreign governments. Those foreign actors who, on the contrary, previously provided financial support to Lukashenka's regime, including the purchase of Belarusian government bonds and other securities, are offered to reconsider their policies towards Belarus.

The document calls for free and fair elections in Belarus under OSCE observation.