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Belarusian Foreign Ministry Severely Criticizes OSCE
11:19, 20/12/2001
“Decision to withdraw OSCE mission from Latvia and Estonia undermine the trust to OCSE as an objective and unbiased international institute”, -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ press secretary Pavel Latushka stated. The verdict of the Standing Committee on this problem was not agreed on, and, he emphasized, He emphasized that in opinion of the Belarusian side, a precedent of taking a decision in the framework of the OSCE without consensus was established. “In this situation Belarusian side will take into account this precedent during formulating its policy in relation to cooperation with OSCE”, -- Latushka underlined. 
SUSPECTS UNDER CHIGIR’S CASE EXPOSED TO TORTURES
11:11, 20/12/2001
Case consideration of a lawsuit, filed against Alexander Chigir (son of a former Belarusian Premier Mikhail Chigir), Anton Yashin and Dmitry Yutskevich was opened on December 19 in the Leninsky district court of Minsk. The defendants pleaded not guilty. Two of them – Anton Yashin and Dmitry Yutskevich – claimed they had signed the confession plea under the strong physical and psychological pressure. During the interrogation they detailed the arbitrary methods, applied against them.
11:10, 20/12/2001
Yesterday four Bobruisk female residents went for an unsanctioned picket of protest in front of Alexander Lukashenko’s administration in Minsk. The women demanded that the authorities reinstate them at their jobs and get them back their places in line for apartments, where they stood for 15-16 years. For running this action the ladies were sentenced to a ten-days arrest and fined 1,5mln rubles.
11:09, 20/12/2001
This week the Ukrainian TV company ICTV reported about the illicit arms deals, brokered by official Belarus. Previously, the newspaper “Kievsky Telegraph” published the findings of the investigation, conducted by the Turin procuracy, in charge of investigating into the illicit international arms sales business. The Ukrainian first president Leonid Kravchuk, seeking to justify his country, accused Belarus of selling weapons to the Balkans.
11:08, 20/12/2001
In the end of December, after a four-year work in Minsk, head of the OSCE mission in Belarus Hans-Georg Wieck leaves Belarus. The day before his departure the diplomat whom A.Lukashenka repeatedly accused of backing opposition and interference with internal country’s affairs, gave an interview to influential Russian newspaper IZVESTIYA.
11:07, 20/12/2001
The influential American human rights watchdog Freedom House in its 2001 Report listed Belarus, along with such rogues as Iran and Iraq, among the countries, whose citizens have no political or civil rights. In its annual report “Freedom in the world-2001” the organization divides the countries into three categories: “free”, “partially free” and “not free”.
11:06, 20/12/2001
The final report on the monitoring was published today. These are some of the most important findings: The incumbent president, Alexander Lukashenko, dominated election coverage on the state television channel BT, receiving 58% of the output devoted to all candidates. His dominance of BT news programmes was even more pronounced: he received 85% of the total time devoted to the candidates.
11:05, 20/12/2001
A very “compound mechanism of privatizing the companies” will be shortly introduced in Belarus – to do this they will need the permission of the companies’ personnel and leadership, as well as of the district, regional and national authorities. RIA Novosti quotes Lukashenko as saying this at the meeting, dedicated to the transformation of the petroleum enterprises into the joint-stock. Lukashenko pledged there “would be no privatization for privatization’s sake”. It will be carried out transparently and openly, he underscored. The president added that every company’s case would be handled individually. The right to engage in privatization will be granted to those investors, who possess the necessary raw resources for the market.
11:04, 20/12/2001
The executive council of the Federation of independent trade unions of Russia addressed the Russian president, government and parliament with a call to exert pressure on the Belarusian authorities in order to get them cancel the ruling #1804 “On some measures to protect trade union members” and terminate the violation of trade unions’ rights.
11:03, 20/12/2001
Chairman of the Federation of Belarusian trade unions Vladimir Goncharik forwarded to the chairman of the Belarusian Constitutional Court Grygory Vasilevich a letter with a request to check out whether the decree “On some measures to protect trade union members” fully complies with the country’s Constitution.
11:02, 20/12/2001, www.praca.by
The average salary in the Vitebsk region in October this year amounted to 138074 rubles. Budget workers, along with the peasants are placed on the bottom of the salary payment list. While the teachers, who sometimes work in two shifts, received in October 126183 thousand rubles ($78,8), the kindergarten workers got twice as little. The average October salary in healthcare constituted 98767 rubles.
11:01, 20/12/2001
Russian holding “Metalloinvest”, agricultural company “Stoylenskaya Niva”, Impex-Bank and the Belarusian enterprise “Gomselmash” act as the co-founders of the joint Russian-Belarusian company “Rusbelselmash”. As reported by the weekly “Expert”, the project sets forth the construction of the trade palace and creation of the dealers network, while next year they will embark on the supplies of spare parts for the manufacture process. In future they esteem possible to widen the spectrum of participants by drawing other Belarusian companies, such as “Lidaselmash” and “Bobrusikselmash” into the business.
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