of the national assembly of belarus nadezhda lazarevich first deputy chairman of the minsk city executive committee dearod evening. good evening. i propose to start with the global sports agenda with the disturbing news that comes from this area. i mean, the sanctions pressure. you and i know that sport has become a hostage to politics and international sports officials talk to us in the language of ultimatums, of course, this is humiliating in the political plane. but, probably, our athletes are in the worst position, who put a significant part of their lives in order to ensure those sporting achievements that they have to demonstrate them, uh, at world-class competitions, and they are not allowed to the olympics, of course, by their decisions by officials international olympic committee. they simply destroy our athletes. here's why in your opinion happening? that's who benefits from applying sanctions against the athletes of belarus, russia, everything that could already be tried. they have already tried only sports left. this is probably a weakness from hopelessness happening, so the sport is already

of the national assembly of belarus nadezhda lazarevich first deputy chairman of the minsk city executive committee dear good evening. good evening i propose to start with the global sports agenda with the disturbing news that comes from this area. i mean, the sanctions pressure. you and i know that sport has become a hostage of politics and international sports officials speak to us in the language of ultimatums, of course, this is humiliating in the political plane. but perhaps in the worst position is our athletes who put a significant part of their lives in order to ensure those sporting achievements that they have to demonstrate them, uh, in world-class competitions, and they are not allowed to the olympics, of course, by their decisions, officials of the international olympic committee. they simply destroy our athletes. why do you think this is happening? that's who benefits from applying sanctions against the athletes of belarus, russia, everything that could already be tried. they have already tried only sports left. it's probably from weakness from hopelessness occurs, so the sport is already t