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Visa facilitation for Belarus and removal of travel ban remain open questions, OSCE chairman says |
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 |
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It
is not yet clear whether the European Union will ease travel for Belarusians
and remove its entry ban on the country's officials, Finnish Foreign Minister
Alexander Stubb, the current chairman-in-office of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), told reporters in
Minsk on Tuesday. |
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Minsk expects all EU sanctions to be lifted, official says |
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 |
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Minsk
expects “all sanctions restricting
cooperation” with the European Union to be lifted, Deputy Foreign Minister Valery
Varanetski told reporters in Minsk on Friday, said BelaPAN. |
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EU urged to participate in Belarusian civil society’s dialogue with authorities |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
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A
Belarusian activist has called on the European Union to participate in dialogue
between Belarusian civil society and the country’s authorities. |
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Belarusian foreign minister invited to meet his EU counterparts |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
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Javier
Solana, the European Union’s high representative for the common foreign and
security policy, has invited Belarusian Foreign Minister Syarhey Martynaw to
attend a meeting of EU foreign ministers that is to take place in
Luxembourg on October 13, AFP reported with
reference to Dr. Solana's spokeswoman Cristina Gallach. |
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Parliamentary elections made Belarus a «unique» country, German ambassador says |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
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September’s
parliamentary elections have made
Belarus a “unique” country, German
Ambassador Gebhardt Weiss said in an interview with BelaPAN. |
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Authorities try to assure Belarusians the OSCE recognised “election” |
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
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Belarusian television didn’t say a single word that the OSCE/ODIHR
election monitoring mission didn’t recognise the “parliamentary
election” in Belarus and said they had fell short of OSCE standards.
Words of heads of the OSCE mission were extracted from context, Russian
Vremya programme on ONT stat-controlled was replaced with ads. |
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Parliamentary elections in Belarus. Protest action. Photo |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
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Despite some minor improvements, Belarus’ September 23-28 House
of Representatives elections “ultimately fell short of OSCE commitments
for democratic elections,” OSCE observers said in a statement issued on
Monday. |
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No oppositionists get through to Parliament |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
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At
least 99 people were elected in the first round of elections for the 110-seat
House of Representatives of Belarus’ National Assembly, but none of them
represented opposition forces, according to the central election commission, BelaPAN said. |
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Belarus’ elections fell short of OSCE standards, OSCE observers say |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
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Despite
some minor improvements, Belarus’ September 23-28 House of Representatives
elections “ultimately fell short of OSCE commitments for democratic elections,”
OSCE observers said in a statement issued on Monday, BelaPAN said. |
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Preliminary voting in Belarus. Photos |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
 On 23 September preliminary voting started in Belarus. Belarusian
opposition believes that it creates conditions for falsification of the
elections results. There were quite a few cases justifying their
position.
"For
some reason International organizations, the OSCE in particular,
advised to Belarus to abolish preliminary voting practices however to
other countries, for instance, to the USA, it was advised to make them
more wide spread", said Mikhail Lozovik two years ago. |
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