Four EU foreign ministers back emergency EU meeting on Belarus

The foreign ministers of Latvia, Estonia. Finland and Poland on August 11 said they backed calling an emergency video meeting of the European Union’s (EU) council of foreign ministers to discuss the crackdown on peaceful demonstrators and the political crisis in Belarus following disputed presidential election on August 9.

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevičs, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto and Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz met for a previously planned…