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"Mr President, over the course of the past four years, the OSCE mission in Belarus has done impressive work under impossible circumstances. The present joint draft resolution is right to express its deep respect for this mission. What is exactly the merit of the Advisory and Monitoring Group? Its former head of mission and great driving force, Mr Hans-Georg Wieck, has given a thumbnail description of this commitment: observation of the human rights situation and administration of justice in Belarus, legal assistance for the affected families, reporting of processes and interventions in cases of violations of the law, humanitarian aid to victims of state persecution on political grounds and by administrative and criminal penalties, development of the range of action and cooperation of political parties, the forming of a coalition of parties and social forces, observation of elections, also involving the local population, and finally, projects reinforcing civil society. Needless to say, all these activities have been a thorn in the side of the authoritarian President of Belarus, Mr Alexander Lukashenko, from the very outset. He has therefore done everything in his power to ignore or undermine the work of the OSCE mission, or what is worse, gave it a bad name in public. This has certainly not done anything for the popularity ratings of the recognised ballot director Lukashenko. Quite the reverse, in fact. While in the opinion polls, his popularity is consistently declining, that of the OSCE mission so detested by him is on the increase. It is therefore hardly surprising that the Belarussian Head of State is now trying to force the OSCE mission in Minsk to resign by refusing the necessary visa to be issued. It is up to the Council and the Commission to stop him, in close cooperation, if at all possible, with the Russian Federation, since we cannot afford to abandon civil society in Belarus, which is finally regaining political and social consciousness, at this crucial time. I therefore agree with Hans-Georg Wieck that nothing less than the credibility of the European institutions is in the balance here."@en1
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