International conference was carried out on 27-28 of September in Kiev. It was carried out in conference-room of Supreme Rada – Ukrainian Parliament. Leader of Socialist party of Ukraine Aleksandr Moroz, Yury Buzdugan, Ukrainian deputies – members of democratic fractions of Parliament, head of EU delegation for Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Jan Marinus Wiersma, FES director Helmut Kurth, representatives of PES Nick Crook, of European Forum Arjen Berkvens, adviser of Polish vice-prime minister, vice-chairman of Unia Prazy Katarzyna Matuszewska, deputies of European parliament, representatives of left-centric parties of Chez Republic, Moldova and Russia took part in it. Belarus was represented by leader of Belarusan social-democratic party “Narodnaya Gramada” Nikolay Statkevitch and ZUBR movement coordinator Vladimir Kobets.

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Belarus, Minsk, to Attorney Kulik. Dear Attorney. Our lokal group of Amnesty International has already for several years been concerned with the case of the disappearances of Yuri Zakharenko, Victor Gonchar, Anatoly Krasovsky and Dmitri Zavadsky. We wrote numerous letters to the president and other authorities of your country and had a regular contact with the wives of the disappeared men. We were witness of their grieve and sorrow and also of their endeavors to become informed about what happened to their beloved ones and about who has to be declared to be guilty of their fate. I suppose you are aware of what happened concerning this whole question.

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On Saturday, September 27 in Palais de l’Europe in Strasbourg LDR Group of PACE held the seminar “Freedom of Press as Watchdog for Democracy”. The seminar was attended by the delegates of the PACE session, representatives of international organizations, diplomats and journalists. Speaking at the seminar were Mr. Hanno HARTIG, Head of the Department for Media, Equality and Minorities, Council of Europe Mr. Francois Tealdi, representative of the European Federation of Journalists and Vice-President of the International Federation of Journalists Mr. Jean-Michel BOISSIER, Reporters Without Borders and Ms. Irina KHALIP, deputy editor-in chief of “BDG”, who presented the situation of press in Belarus. Below is the full text of her presentation.

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