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One might ask why Belarus is the country with the highest number of Parliament resolutions condemning its behaviour. Some might say in reply that it is due to the human rights situation.
Even if one accepts that view, however, one might also ask why Parliament does not adopt, with the same eagerness, resolutions on countries with situations that might be considered as serious, if not more so. Would that be because Belarus has until now refused to bow to the unacceptable demands and interference of the United States and the major EU powers?
Would that be because, unlike most countries in the region, it has blocked and reversed privatisations in key sectors of the economy, invested in agriculture and domestic production, improved the living conditions of its people – the only country in the former Soviet bloc, indeed, to have restored its 1990 GDP?
Would it be because Belarus is committed to setting up a union of equal states with Russia, a country with which it has a collective defence agreement?
Would it be, lastly, because this is a case of double standards, working in favour of the strategic interests and economic ambitions of the United States and its allies in Europe?"@en1
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