German Chancellor Angela Merkel applauds Belarus women protesters for their bravery

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has praised women protesters in Belarus for staging peaceful demonstrations amid ongoing social unrest in nation. Merkel also said that she h plans to meet Belarus’s main opposition candidate.

While dressing German lawmakers on Wednesday, September 30, Merkel said that Germany does t recognise recent Belarusian presidential election and refore cant accept Lukashenko as nation's president. She also called women protesting on streets of Belarus "extremely brave", ding that said she mired ir resolve and found it really ‘impressive’.

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Germany follows France's line

German government is yet to reveal details of Merkel's upcoming meeting with Sviatlana Tsikhauskaya who fled Belarus for Lithuania shortly after results of elections were declared that hailed Lukashenko's victory with supposed 80% votes.

Merkel’s anuncement comes after French President Emmanuel Macron met with Tsikhauskaya in Lithuania. According to reports, after meeting Belarus opposition leer Macron said, “We h a very good discussion. w we need to be pragmatic and to support Belarus people and we will do all that”.

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Meanwhile, United Kingdom and Cana have imposed sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. In dition, y have also placed sanctions on Lukashenko’s son and or senior government officials. UK has also refused to accept results of August 9 election as legitimate and does t consider Lukashenko to be legitimate leer of Belarus.

As per reports, UK has imposed a travel ban as well as frozen assets of eight officials from Belarusian government, including Lukashenko's son Viktor Aleksandrovich Lukashenko and Igor Sergeenko, he of presidential ministration. Cana has also applied similar sanctions.

Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, when asked about possible sanctions against Belarus stated that Germany was ‘firmly resolved’ to impose sanctions against Belarus and regrets that European Union has been unable to reach an agreement.

(With AP inputs)

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