The US has not decided how to respond to the protests in Belarus, said Secretary of state Mike Pompeo. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
Pompeo has allowed the introduction of sanctions against the Republic and the suspension of oil supplies. “We want a good result for the people of Belarus and will take action based on it,” he said.
Pompeo previously said that the US believes elections in Belarus are neither free nor fair. In addition, us Senator Robert Menendez has threatened sanctions, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and offered to hold new elections in the country. According to him, recent developments in bilateral relations between the U.S. and Belarus will cost nothing, while the Belarusian authorities will not count accurately the ballots or not to hold elections again.
Protests continue in Belarus in the evening of August 9, when the CEC announced a crushing victory of Alexander Lukashenko on the opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovski in the presidential elections. The protests were brutally suppressed with the help of the interior Ministry forces, Riot police, military special forces, armed with stun grenades, rubber bullets and other weapons. Detained for nearly six thousand people.
