French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday promised to help mediate in the Belarusian political crisis during a meeting with opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

“We will do our best as Europeans to help mediate,” Macron told reporters after the talks during his visit to Lithuania.

“We had a very good discussion but now we need to be pragmatic and to support the Belarusian people and we will do our best, believe me,” the French president added, without elaborating.