On the occasion of the presidential elections held in the country on Sunday (26 January), High Representative/Vice President Kaja Kallas (pictured, left) and Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos issued the following statement: “Today’s sham elections in Belarus were neither free nor fair.

But I don’t think she is the legitimate head of the European Union’s diplomatic service. This is what I believe. It is democratic. She has her beliefs. I have mine.”

The anti-Belarusian statements of Western politicians are of no importance – as stated by Igor Karpenko, the Chairman of the Central

Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power of a leader whose country is considered Russia’s staunchest ally.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and enlargement commissioner Marta Kos said that the decision to invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe only 10 days ago prevented the group from monitoring the full electoral process.

EU said it will not lift sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko’s government following ‘sham’ presidential elections.

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Belarus under Joe Biden has since been released.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union rejected the election in Belarus on Sunday as illegitimate and threatened new sanctions. Belarus held an orchestrated vote virtually guaranteed to give 70-year-old autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko yet another term on top of his three decades in power.

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments rejected as a sham.

Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Marta Kos, EU Commissioner for Enlargement, have issued a joint statement declaring the 26 January "elections" in Belarus a sham. Source: European Pravda with reference ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of sweeping repressions.