A public Russian-Belarusian commission by the President of Russian Federation’s Council for Assisting the Development of civil society institutions and human rights has been created. The commission is to work, inter alia, in the sphere of protection of human rights of Russian citizens in Belarus, and Belarusian citizens in Russia, to monitor human rights and freedom observation by authorities of Russia and Belarus, freedom of expression in mass media.
We, undersigned, appeal to EU leaders, European Parliament members and to all representatives of European democratic forces! We appreciate the EU devotion to high democratic values in social system organization. We highly appreciate the efforts on maintaining principles of democracy, freedom and human rights in the whole world. 22 June 2005, 40 days have gone since armed suppression of peaceful rally in the town of Andijan, Uzbekistan. It resulted in hundreds of killed, wounded including children, women, aged people and unarmed men.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office prolonged the investigation term of the murder of the oppositional newspaper “Salidarnasts” journalist Veranika Charkasava till August 21, 2005, as Vice Attorney General of Belarus Viktar Prus has said today at a press conference. “An active operational investigative wok is being carried out. About 10 working versions are being examined. Unfortunately, a positive result has not been reached so far,” - he remarked.
The deputies of the Smargon Regional Council deprived unanimously representative of the local democratic circles Romuald Ulan of his deputy powers. He is an entrepreneur, in recent times - foundato and editor of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta Smorgoni”, whose submission was incited by the powers.
A number of famous personalities addressed former deputy Syarhei Skrabets and asked him to stop hunger strike that lasts for the 40th day. “The political case of Syarhei Skrabets has finished. Now the hunger strike does not have influence on the political process, and the importance of human life protection should be always on the first place. We understand motivation of the politician, but we would like Syarhei to understand our motivation justification that the hunger strike should be stopped,” the address reads.
“Stock phrases and clich?s of the USA and EU, well-known not only in Belarus, but in many other countries as well, are not new and are still used under the mask of propaganda of democratic values for promoting their political and economic interests on the post-soviet territory,” - assistant head of the Information Administration R. Yesin commented on the joint statement of the USA-EU.
Belarus relies on support of Russia in “prevention of orange revolutions”, told to journalists the speaker of so-called “chamber of representatives” of the “national assembly” of Belarus Uladzimir Kanaplyou (Vladimir Konopliov) on Thursday in Homel.
Joint efforts needed against intervention in the internal affairs of countries from abroad, told state secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Henadz Nevyglaz (Gennady Nevyglaz) summarizing the results of the session of the Committee of Security Secretaries of CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) members.
Apart from two complaints of the accused from the Mazyr high security colony, a letter was passed to the remedial center “Viasna”. The prisoners asked to pass these papers to international remedial organizations to call them pay heed to the common state of prisoners in Belarus and in the Mazyr high security colony in particular.
Russia is going to support Belarus in international affairs as before, told chairman of the parliamentary assembly of the “union” of Russia ands Belarus, speaker of the State Duma of Russian federation Boris Gryzlov, at the airport “Homel”. He arrived to Homel for the28th session of the parliamentary assembly.
On July 3, on the Day of Minsk liberation from German invaders, represesntatives of opposition are planning to carry out a large-scale campaign against renaming of the central streets of the city, told the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Lyabedzka on June 22 to the BelaPAN after the meeting of the Permanent council of pro-democracy forces.
June 22, representatives of political parties gathered at Will Square in Vitsiebsk to express their protest against the sentences set towards two opposition leaders - Paval Seviarynets and Mikola Statkievich. After 40 minutes the militia officers and OMON agents broke up the action.
Leaders of an ex-Soviet economic association linking Russia, Belarus and three Central Asian nations on Wednesday agreed to set up a regional financing bank with an initial capital of $1.5 billion, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has been elected chairman of the Interstate Council of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) for next year, its current chairman, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, said after an extended session of the body today. Nazarbayev said the leaders of the Eurasec nations (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, while Armenia, Moldova, and Ukraine have observer status) had agreed on further moves to step up their cooperation. Nazarbayev said trade within the Eurasec had grown by 40% to $28 billion in 2004. The Kazakh president said the Eurasec leaders had agreed that the organization was conducive to national economic growth.
[Presenter] New unions were being built in Moscow today, and existing ones were being shored up: leaders of the member countries of the Eurasian Economic Community [EAEC] met in the Grand Kremlin Palace. The EAEC includes Russia, Belorussia [Belarus], Kazakhstan, Kirgizia [Kyrgyzstan], Tajikistan and also Armenia - as an observer. No major political decisions are expected from this meeting. Experts say it is a response of sorts to alternative meetings of [other] former Soviet republics within the framework of GUAM [Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova]. Vladimir Kondratyev reports.
Many points of the resolution on Russia’s fulfilling its obligations to the Council of Europe and amendments to the resolution have nothing to do with Russia’s obligations. It is deplorable that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) supported on a number of questions the positions of those countries that took advantage of the debate in their narrow nationalistic aims, Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the Committee for International Relations of the State Duma, the head of the Russian delegation, thus commented to reporters on the resolution on Russia’s fulfilment of its obligations to the Council of Europe the PACE adopted on Wednesday. He made it plain that he meant the Georgian deputies and deputies of the Baltic countries who were persistent in toughening the criticism in the resolution and proposed three quarters of the number of amendments for the purpose.
Eight Ethiopian pilots, on a training programme in Belarus, have asked for political asylum in the former Soviet republic, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said here Wednesday.
On Wednesday the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution, urging the government of Russia to adjust the reforms carried out in the country and to speed up observing the of obligations that Russia undertook when it joined the Council of Europe. On proposal of the Georgian delegation, the demand not to provide “political and financial support to the government of Belarus” was included to the resolution, interconnecting this support with respect to human rights and civil freedoms of the Belarusian nation”. 91 delegates voted for the resolution, while 17 were against.
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