Press Service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry comments on the adoption by the European Parliament of a resolution on Belarus on 5 July in Strasbourg

06 July 2012

06/07/2012

Hammering out by the European Parliament of a resolution on Belarus on the eve of the forthcoming parliamentary elections – an important political event in the country – cannot be considered other than an explicit political order by those forces in Europe that are not interested in building good-neighbourly relations with Belarus.

Rubber-stamping such one-sided and biased resolutions has long become a usual business for the European Parliament. It appears that most of the EP members do not only try to get a grasp of them but also do not read them. In these conditions, a certain group of EP MPs being guided by their own internal considerations just pushes through a distorted picture of the situation in Belarus.

Fresh appeals to introducing sanctions against Belarus, notwithstanding that the sanctions policy has long ago proved to be ineffective and leading nowhere, does nothing but complicate a mutual search for ways of normalizing Belarus-EU dialogue.

In spite of such unconstructive EP approaches Belarus reiterates its interest in developing mutually beneficial partner relations with the European Union and its member states based on universally recognized in international relations principles of equality and mutual respect.

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