Human rights activist of the “Viasna” center from Mozyr Uladzimir Tselepun was detained by police in the town of Kalinkavichy. The activist was detained soon after deputy chairman of the regional branch of the United Civil Party Uladzimir Katsora delivered him a repaired private computer.
Belarus is considering the question of leaving the Bishkek agreement according to which no visa is needed to travel within the frontiers of the CIS. This was announced Monday by Aliaxandar Gerasimenksa, the Vice Foreign Minister of the Republic. In this case Belarus will impose the visa regime with Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Today the 14th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE starts in Washington. It’s theme is “30 years after Helsinki: New Challenges”. This year marks 30 years after signing the historic Helsinki Final Act and 15 years after adoption of Paris Charter. The official delegation of the illegitimate “national assembly” of the “chamber of representatives” of Belarus headed by vice speaker of the “chamber of representatives” Syarhei Zabalotsets is planning to visit America as well.
“The Belarusian public was astounded at the biased comments on the interior political situation in Belarus comprised in the so-called Open letter of the Council of the President of the Russian Federation on the development of the institutions for civil society and for human rights to the President of Belarus A. R. Lukashenka,” - as it is said in the Mass Media statement of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia.
OSCE`s future 12:57, 30/06/2005, By David Ferguson, Euro Reporters
"What the 55 States of the OSCE need to do is to rediscover a sense of common purpose in addressing issues that are common to them all. I hope that the recommendations contained in this report will help to work towards that end," says OSCE Chair-in-Office, and Slovenian Foreign Minister, Dimitrij Rupel. An all-male `Panel of Eminent Persons` today presented a 32-page report on strengthening the 55-nation security Organization.
Lat weekend Stanislau Khaladovich, former policeman, visited several settlements of Ivatsevichy region, including his native village, Hortal. During the meetings with inhabitants he handed out informational materials about activities of People’s coalition “Five plus” and other oppositional structures, and the booklet of Vasil Lyavonau “Without a right for a mistake”. After returning to Ivatsevichy Stanislau Khaladovich found out that somebody from the village dwellers called up the police department, and policemen arrived to Hortal.
For more than 10 years the German Special Forces structures have their uniform tailored in Belarus. Today officers of Bundeswehr, German criminal police and customs services are dressed in the uniform manufactured in Belarus. And while the employees of the Dziarzhynsk garment factory are proud of their German orders, the customers show no pride in this concern and refrain from any comments on this matter. In their coverage “Uniform by Dictator” the journalists of the ZDF TV channel even raise the question of morality in this situation.
The United States almost a year ago expressed deep concern about the Belarusian government`s assault on academic freedom when it shut down a respected private university, the European Humanities University (EHU) in Minsk.
A Belarusian opposition group accused the police on Tuesday of refusing to investigate the recent death of an ethnic Polish activist who had spoken out against the authoritarian regime in Minsk, further souring relations between Poland and Belarus.
Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Eduard Kukan met with Slovak ambassadors at a meeting on Tuesday that is held once every two years. Besides some critical remarks concerning Hungarian policy concerning minorities, the minister expressed concern about the current situation in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Even though Mr. Kukan called present signals of deformations of democracy in Russia worrying, he confirmed Slovakia`s continuing interest in cooperating with Russia on a practical level, including active communication within both the EU-Russia and NATO-Russia format The minister insisted that cooperation is more effective than isolation, even though this policy should not be interpreted as ignoring Russian interference in neighboring countries or as in any way respecting Russia`s lack of will to see frozen conflicts solved as well as its failure to comply with Istanbul commitments from 1999.
On June 30 and July 1, Gleb Pavlovskij and Modest Kolerov will hold a conference in Moscow dedicated to the CIS development, and development of Russia in particular. Mr.Kolerov is the Head of the Department on CIS in Putin’s administration. The list of invited persons looks curious – the organizers have invited Mr.Sheiman and Mr. Voitovich, Mr.Gajdukevich and Mr.Kolos, Mr.Grigorjev and Mr.Kozulin, as well as some others.
Crossing the state border of Belarus is to be paid for. The fee for its crossing by foreign and Belarusian citizens is introduced. According to the decree, the charge for crossing the border should not exceed one forth of a basic unit (for today it is about 6 Br or 3 USD). The regional councils and Minsk city council are allowed to collect this money.
Minister of the Interior Uladzimir Naumau deems the resolution of the death penalty abolition can be adopted only in the course of the all-national dispute. “We have been moving to the abolition of death penalty for a long time. The number of the sentences set is minimum. Two this year,” - U. Naumau said in his interview to Interfax.
Customs duty for bringing in used cars to Belarus by physical persons is to grow by average 90-100 Euro, told chairman of the State Customs Committee Alyaksandr Shpileuski in Minsk, answering the questions of the “deputies” on Wednesday.
June 28, the court chamber of the Vitsiebsk Region Court set a sentence to four members of a criminal gang of Polatsk. One of the organizers of the gang was sentenced to death penalty, another one - to life imprisonment.
Belarus loses from 30 to 40 per cent of textile supplies to the countries, where cheap Chinese products are sold, prime minister of this republic Sergei Sidorskiy has told reporters today.
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