Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Wednesday that she would in turn meet the leader of the opposition in Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa, received the day before by the French head of state Emmanuel Macron.
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I will also soon be meeting
" Mrs Tikhanovskaïa, she declared in front of the deputies of the Bundestag, underlining in the passage "
the courage
" of the women who regularly demonstrate against President Alexander Lukashenko after his controversial election last month.