Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Menendez, European Allies Condemn Belarus President Lukashenka for Intercepting Civilian Flight to Arrest Journalist
May 26, 2021
May 26, 2021
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, May 26 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following joint statement on May 24, 2021, with his counterparts in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Germany, Lithuania, Ireland, Poland and the United Kingdom condemning the Belarus President Alexander Lukashenka for forcefully landing a Ryanair flight to arrest journalist Raman Pratasevich:
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"We, the chairs of our respective nation . . .
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"We, the chairs of our respective nation . . .