The fifth congress of the Federation of Trade unions of Belarus has unanimously elected Leanid Kozik the FTUB chairman. As Interfax correspondent informs, the only nomination had been put in, Leanid Kozik.
The leader of the Group of the European People`s Party and European Democrats (EPP-ED), the largest faction in the European Parliament, promised that the legislative body of the European Union would devote attention to the Polish ethnic minority in Belarus and human rights abuse in the country.
The Lithuanian government does not consider Belarus a political threat, but its values are different from those of the Belarusian authorities, Laimonas Talat-Kelpsa, a departmental head with the Lithuanian foreign ministry, said at a workshop held in Minsk on September 16.
The House of Representatives international committee in the Belarusian National Assembly on September 19 advised the lower chamber to ratify an agreement with Libya on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters.
While speaking in New York on Thursday, the Belarusian leader renewed his criticism of the United States, accusing it of attempts to use democracy issues to control other countries. He said that Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein are behind bars on "groundless" and "absurd" accusations and should be released.
A businessman from Vaukavysk Mikalay Autukhovich has announced another hunger strike, which is the third within the last two years. As said by him, another attack against his business has been started by tax inspection and local authorities.
“The decree issued by Minister Halavanau means either that the minister has gone mad, or that Belarus is turning into a fully fascist state. Previously, within a year or a year and a half the Justice Ministry has cancelled registration of about 100 non-governmental organizations, which have not stopped their activities, but turned into civil initiatives. Today the authorities demand that these and other civil initiatives to go through the registration process again. But in reality the resolution of Lukashenka’s minister means the following: stop thinking and saying bad of Lukashenka, stop struggling with dictatorship, otherwise all dissenters would be sent to prisons and colonies,” in this way the coordinator of the civil initiative “Chatrer’97” Zmitser Bandarenka commented the resolution adopted by Justice Minister Viktar Halavanau on obligatory registration of coalitions, civil initiatives and movements.
Belarus fully acknowledges and goes all out in support of the right of Iran to develop and use peaceful nuclear technologies in the framework of following the regime of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, told Foreign Minister of Belarus Syarhei Martynau summarizing the results of discussion concerning situation with nuclear technologies in Iran with Iranian Foreign Minister.
“The social and political stability of our state, and thus the dynamics of our country’s development to a great extent depends on how constructive the position of trade unions would be,” said Alyaksandr Lukashenka today, addressing the 5th congress of the Federation of the Trade Unions in Belarus.
«We wait for the response from the Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FM) on the appeal concerning the detention of the Ukraine’ FM advisor, the activist of the Ukraine’s “Pora” organization” Sergey Evtushenko».
Another congress of the Trade Union Federation of Belarus has started in Minsk. The leadership of the organization plans to adopt the programme of action for the five years, and to hold re-election of the FTUB head. Representatives of the independent trade union movement were not invited to take part in the forum.
In 1920, as the Red Calvary fell apart in Western Ukraine in a riot of incompetence and mayhem, a disillusioned Isaac Babel wrote in his diary, “They all say they are fighting for justice and they all loot.”
Justice Ministry of Belarus Viktar Halavanau has issued a decree on obligatory registration of blocs of political parties, trade unions, coalitions, civil initiatives and movements. Aiming at taking all associations and initiatives of citizens under total control, the authorities violate the right of people for freedom of association and meetings. “Associations of citizens possess features inherent to public associations pursue political goals. Activities of such associations can be carried out only after their state registration and entering information about them into the State Register of public associations,” the decree reads.
Though the domestic situation in Belarus is tightly controlled by the authorities, the administration of President Alexander Lukashenka has been isolated internationally to an increasing extent. It was designated an "outpost of tyranny" by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and the U.S. administration and the European Union have made no secret of their preference for a change of regime. However, the Lukashenka leadership has been presented recently with some propaganda triumphs that may help to perpetuate the image propagated by the Belarusian media of a strong leader of a stable republic, offering new international initiatives.
The deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the 13th convocation Andrei Klimau (Klimov) is to go to the settlement in Krupki. The political prisoner was informed about that by policemen. The date of departure is September 22. The court of the Tsentralny district of Minsk sentenced the oppositional politician to a year and a half of personal restraint for organizing a protest rally on March 25, which was held under slogans of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s retirement. The court had taken into consideration that Andrei Klimau was kept in the remand prison during the investigation, that is why he is to spend a year and three months in the settlement with forcible labour.
The cellular communications operator – closed company Belarusian telecommunications network (the JSC BeST) will receive a USD 50 million preferential credit from the government of China for building its network, BeST director general Mikhail Demchenko told a press conference today.
Twelve people – eleven Belarusians and one Ukrainian suffered today in the morning in the result of a road accident happened on the highway Kharkov-Simferopl. Two of them were seriously injured and were taken to hospital in Melitopol. Among those, who died – 4 Belarusians and one Ukrainian. On the whole there were 39 people including two Ukrainians in the group heading for Gurzuf. All the children, who were in the bus, are alive. One child (born in 2001) was rendered necessary medical aid.
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