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After weathering a wave of protests and Western sanctions last year, Lukashenko is facing renewed pressure over the incident. ― Reuters pic
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MINSK (Belarus), May 26 ― A defiant President Lukashenko will address Belarus parliament Wednesday as international pressure over the country s diversion of an airliner in order to arrest a dissident grows, with the UN Security Council set to meet behind closed doors later.
The speech to parliament will be the first time the Belarusian leader has spoken in public since Sunday s rerouting of a Ryanair flight to Minsk and the subsequent arrest of opposition journalist Roman Protasevich.
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