GENEVA—The United Nations agreed on Friday to step up monitoring of reported rights abuses during Belarus’s crackdown on protests, angering Minsk and its ally Moscow and raising the diplomatic stakes in the crisis.
During a highly charged debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council, European ministers denounced the repression of demonstrations since Belarus’s Aug 9. elections, and Britain’s envoy said it would support sanctions. Belarus said the Council’s decision on monitoring set “a dangerous precedent”.
