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Poland Urges Leaders to Call EU Summit on Election in Belarus

Riot police disperse protesters after polls closed in the presidential election in Minsk on Aug. 9.

Riot police disperse protesters after polls closed in the presidential election in Minsk on Aug. 9.

Photographer: Siarhei Leskiec/AFP via Getty Images

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on Europe’s leaders to hold a snap European Union summit after protests erupted following Belarus’s presidential election.

Poland may also summon the ambassador of its Eastern neighbor after riot police clashed with thousands of demonstrators in Belarus after Alexander Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory in the ballot. Opposition leaders raised accusations of massive fraud.