The following statement was released on August 20 by the Washington-based Central and East European Coalition, of which the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian National Association are member organizations.
The Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) expresses deep concerns regarding the fraudulent elections in Belarus held on August 9, 2020, as well as the violent crackdown against unarmed and peaceful protesters throughout that country. This is yet another tragic mark in the long record of systematic human rights abuses by the dictatorial regime of Alexander [Alyaksandr] Lukashenka.