General documents - Joint Statement on the Belarusian regime's decision to suspend its participation in the Eastern Partnership - Delegation for relations with Belarus

Joint Statement by the Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, MEP David McALLISTER, the Chair of the Delegation for Relations with Belarus, MEP Robert BIEDROŃ, and the European Parliament's Standing Rapporteur on Belarus, MEP Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS

Brussels, 30 June 2021 - "By suspending its participation in the Eastern Partnership, recalling its Ambassador to the EU and suggesting to the Head of the EU Delegation to also return to Brussels for consultations, the regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenka has once again demonstrated an irrational and isolationist behaviour, which we deplore and reject. We also condemn its intention to suspend the readmission agreement with the EU, which is an act of retaliation against the recently expanded EU sanctions and paves the way for facilitating illegal migration to the EU. [...]