The U.S. secretary of state urged Belarusian authorities to protect protesters and expand political freedoms, pressuring a regime that could face new European Union sanctions after its latest election was criticized as unfair
PRAGUE—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on authorities in Belarus to protect protesters and give the country’s citizens more political freedom, the latest pressure on a regime that might now face new sanctions from the neighboring European Union.
“We want the people in Belarus to have the freedoms that they’re demanding,” Mr. Pompeo said at a press conference Wednesday with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš at the Czech Republic’s government headquarters in Prague. He said a Belarusian election Sunday “wasn’t held...
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