European Parliament Upholds Appeal to EU on Belarus :: Charter'97 :: News

The European Parliament supported the proposal of the international trade union structures to the European Parliament concerning Belarus. In early February the International Confederation of free trade unions, the European confederation of trade unions and the Universal confederation of labor forwarded to the EU trade commissioner Pascal Lami an address, calling on EU to initiate official investigation into the situation with the freedom of associations in Belarus and, if need be, halt the generalized system of preferences’ treatment, previously enjoyed by Belarus. This system provides less developed countries with a more favorable regime in foreign trade.

The trade union movement of Belarus’ web-site reports that at the February 11 plenary the EP deputies determined to uphold the proposal of the leaders of international trade union structures. Now the Belarusian issue must be raised for consideration before the EU member-states in the Committee for the generalized system of preferences.