” “Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and another thirty ministers of his government from now on are officially considered unwelcome in the European Union. The meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 25 member states, which is being held in Luxembourg, decided to forbid free circulation of Minsk’s political authorities within the territory of the European Union, in "response to the president’s elections of March 19th", whose results had been regarded as "unreliable" as the fruit of vote rigging. The Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs certifies a position that had been generally taken by the EU authorities just after the voting. The same position had been taken last week by the EU Parliament, whose vast majority had "firmly condemned" the president’s elections in Belarus, recalling that "Lukashenko’s regime has no democratic legitimacy and remains the last dictatorship in Europe". The floor, that had given a big round of applause to the opposition leader, Aleksander Milinkevich, who was in the gallery, had also asked that democracy should be restored and the opponents of the regime that had been arrested in the last few weeks should be released.” “
