OSCE forces nonexistent standards upon Belarus, other countries

       The OSCE tries to force nonexistent standards upon Belarus and other countries, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told media.
       "These standards don’t exist. Together with Russia and other countries, including Kazakhstan and Ukraine, we have insisted on working out these standards and unifying them. But these standards don’t exist. These standards are interpreted any way anyone wants. CIS observers primarily base their judgment on criteria, which are closest to all of us. This way we evaluate elections here, within the CIS framework and these evaluations are contrary to the OSCE evaluations because the OSCE tries to force its own standards upon us. Not even its own standards but nonexistent standards, which are completely politically biased.
A proof of these double standards is the USA that positions itself as a stronghold of democracy. So international observers arrive and get told that if they cross the threshold, they will be arrested. What if we acted like that? We invite them and Americans act as observers in Belarus. We don’t arrest them. But even today they want to be able to count votes. It is a manifestation of double and triple standards. We cannot allow it."