US embassy makes an example of investigation of disappearances :: Charter'97 :: News

Last year on December, 26 during the press conference minister of interior affairs Vladimir Naumov while answering question of reporter of radio “Liberty” said that Belarus is agree to invite foreign specialists for participation in investigation of political disappearances if one makes example of it in history of international relations. US embassy informed Belarusan Ministry of foreign affairs about four similar cases.

As radio “Liberty” says, it was in Salvador in 1989, where local government invited FBI officers to interrogate murder of Jesuit monks; in 1995 in Haiti where FBI agents assisted in investigation of murders of political opponents of president Aristida; in 2001 in Ukraine FBI assisted in investigation of murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze; in 2002 authorities of Georgia offered FBI specialists to take part in investigation of high-ranking bureaucrat Nicalos Lominadze
In message of US embassy is said that co-operation of different countries in investigation of political cases “has some precedents and recommended itself well”. Especially it is useful in cases of “invitation of experts and using technologies which are not presented in the country”, -- says message of the embassy.