The Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya calls on the US to isolate Lukashenko

 Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya,calls US to impose further sanctions to isolate President Alexander Lukashenko

                                

The Belarusian opposition leader calls on the US to isolate Lukashenko Exiled. He calls US to impose further sanctions on President Alexander Lukashenko Belarus,

 The opposition leader in Belarus. The exiled Svetlana Tikhanovskaya called on the US on Thursday to impose further sanctions to isolate President Alexander Lukashenko, whose election victory is viewed by Washington as fraudulent. 

"I urge you, the elected representatives of the American people, to continue to act decisively. 

We call on the United States to participate in international mediation with European partners," said Tikhanovskaya in a virtual appearance at a hearing in Congress. He also called on the United States "to use its diplomacy to further isolate Lukashenko and to underline that his political turning point has passed.

 The Belarusian strongman called for victory for a sixth term in the August elections, international and from the opposition as being widely criticized. " A 38-year-old  Tikhanovskaya who claims to have won the vote fled abroad after state authorities arrested hundreds of people participating in mass protests and sentenced many to prison terms long prison terms. 

Now he lives in Lithuania. The US imposed sanctions on nine state-owned companies in Belarus in April in response to government crackdown on democracy protests.

Tikhanovskaya hailed these Treasury Department sanctions as "one of the more effective measures, "but urged the United States to punish other companies in his country. 

He also called on the US Congress to consider giving more support to civil society organizations in Belarus. 

As independent media and the private sector, as the European Union has said. He also said there had been no major talks between the international powers on how to end the nine-month political crisis in his country. be actively involved in organizing such an international conference that involves a wide range of stakeholders, "he said.