Pay more attention to the dictatorial regimes

International security forum (Halifax, Canada) 18-20.11.2016

"Perhaps the concerns connected with the pre-election statements of Donald Trump forced the international community to think seriously about the state of democracy in the world and to pay more attention to the dictatorial regimes. There were many talks at the forum about the need to support democracy, the development of preventive measures against authoritarianism and dictatorship ," (Andrei Sannikov)


"The agenda of the forum was very rich: the future of democracy, changes in the political map of the world, the war in Ukraine, international terrorism, aggressive policy of Russia, the Syrian crisis, the global role of China, the rise of nationalism in the world, cyber security, climate change, etc."

"Sannikov stressed that Lukashenka’s "peacemaking" role in the Ukrainian conflict does not correspond with the real actions on growing military capabilities on the Western borders of Belarus."



Charter 97 "Sannikov, McCain discuss future of Belarus" (full text):
https://charter97.org/en/news/2016/11/22/231958/
"At the meetings with Canadian politicians and representatives of the MFA Andrei Sannikov also discussed the necessity to support the Belarusian civil society, human rights defenders and political prisoners. He paid particular attention to the complicated state of the Belarusian independent media, which have to counterstand not only against the dictatorship inside the country, but the Russian aggressive propaganda as well."

Foton: KL