Latvian President calls Europe to support Belarusian democrats :: Charter'97 :: News

Thursday, at the 4th Economic Summit in Munich, President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga called Europe to achieve new agreements on the future of the European Union and its management and also to communicate these ideas to the citizens in a simpler way. The Latvian President said that the EU should by no means become a closed club, because successful development is comprised within open relationship with all European countries that protect the democratic values. “Thus, the European Union will uphold consolidation of civil societies, independent Mass Media, non-governmental organizations and human rights activists in such countries as, for example, Ukraine, Georgia or Belarus, the latter being the last authoritarian dictatorship in Europe,” - said the President of Latvia. Vaira Vike-Freiberga called the Europeans who live in freedom and democracy to be “a lighthouse for those people in many countries where those values are still a dream,” as the BNS news agency was told in the Press Service of the President of Latvia.