US does not recognize Lukashenko as legitimate president of Belarus

[Judi Lynn]

08:48, 24.09.2020

The United States does not consider Aleksandr Lukashenko the legally elected president of Belarus, a US State Department representative told RIA Novosti.

The August 9 [presidential] election [in Belarus] was neither free nor fair. The announced results were fake and do not reflect legitimacy. The United States cannot consider Aleksandr Lukashenko as the country's legally elected leader, the State Department representative said, commenting on Lukashenko's inauguration on Wednesday.

https://news.am/eng/news/603715.html

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[regnaD kciN]

1. Now, there's something with the potential...

...to serve as Exhibit A in the encyclopedia entry for “irony.”

[uriel1972]

2. I wonder if someone didn't bribe someone enough

[mahina]

3. Awesome.

I’ll take it. One good thing. Mahalo.

[Marcuse]

4. Has the deep State Department told the president about this? Or will he hear it from an angry Putin