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Head of OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights misquoted by Belarusian television
Monday, 29 September 2008
The
OSCE's election observation mission issued a statement to say that two
Belarusian television networks misquoted Janez Lenarcic, head of the OSCE
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, on Sunday.
MEP Janusz Onyszkiewicz: The West shouldn’t recognise “election” in Belarus
Sunday, 28 September 2008
Polish member of the European Parliament, former defence minister and
one of the leaders of Solidarity movement urged the West not to
recognise the election results in Belarus.
Swedish ambassador calls for abolition of controversial Criminal Code article
Friday, 26 September 2008
Swedish
Ambassador Stefan Eriksson has called for abolishing Belarus’ Criminal Code article that
carries punishment for “acting on behalf of an unregistered organization.”
OSCE representative lauds conditions for election observers in Belarus
Friday, 26 September 2008
Conditions
for the free observation of the parliamentary elections have been created in Belarus, Anne-Marie Lizin, coordinator
of the OSCE short-term observation mission, said at Friday’s meeting with
Vadzim Papow, chairman of the House of Representatives, BelaPAN said.
Minsk hopes that Europe recognizes the new parliament “regardless of anything"
Saturday, 20 September 2008
Lord Bell (for those who do not know, a British
PR guru, who signed a contract with the Belarusian government) is not in vain to
eat his oatmeal. There were several interviews with the Western media recently.
On September 18th, the official Belarusian leader met with
journalists of "The Financial Times” and the “Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung”. Both newspapers, English and German, are well-known and respectable.
Belarusian doctors argue with Lukashenko: they do not receive salaries of thousands of dollars
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Alexander Lukashenko spoke again on revenues of
Belarusians. On Monday at a press conference with Russian journalists, he
talked about the salaries of medics, that allegedly reach several thousand
dollars.
Ireland is attempting to restore trips of Belarusian children for medical reasons
Monday, 08 September 2008
In the course of an informal
meeting of the heads of Foreign Ministries of the European Union in the French
Avignon the Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin told his colleagues about the
ban on trips abroad for children from Chernobyl affected territories for
medical treatment, which was introduced by the Belarusian authorities following
the recent case of a schoolgirl from Borisov Tania Kozyra. On 5 August the girl
refused to return back home after spending her vacations in the USA.
A team of the Republican biological reserve
"Sporovsky" (Berezovsky district) won the first place at the third
European Championship of manual mowing of low-lying marshes, the media reported
today.
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