The government has circularized executive committees of Belarus an instruction signed by Belarusian Prime Minister Syarhei Sidorski that only after providing recommendations from two state officials.

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Minsk city executive committee has sanctioned a meeting of self-employed entrepreneurs on March 12. However, they have been allowed to organize a meeting in Park of Nations’ Friendship, and not in Yakub Kolas square.

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Today a meeting of the leader of the democratic forces of Belarus Alyaksandr Milinkevich, a chairman of the Party of Communists of Belarus Syarhei Kalyakin and a leader of the United Civil party Anatol Lyabedzka with the Director of High Representative Solana`s Policy Unit Helga Schmid and Pirkka Tapiola, a Senior Adviser of the Secretariat of the Council of the European Union has taken place.

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Belarus and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are considering the possibility of building a tourist town in the vicinity of one of the Belarusian national parks, Lukashenka announced to Telegraf.by on Tuesday when dwelling on outcomes of his visit to the UAE.

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On March 7 overnight Ludmila Pastajalka, a mother of the senior physician of the Republican hospital of the Presidential Affairs department Iryna Abelskaya, Lukashenka’s personal doctor, Radio Svaboda informs.

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Deutsche welle asked Michael Harms, expert of the Eastern committee of the German economy who recently came from Belarus to comment on the plans of the Belarusian government on privatization of large industrial enterprises.

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Belarus is exploring the second construction site for the atomic power plant. Head of the Academy of sciences Mikhal Myasnikovich named the Schklou-Gorki district as a place for exploratory work. More precise location is not given to avoid the disturbance of the local population. Scientists and experts now are still studying the experience of states, which are the leaders in atomic power engineering, but the construction has been already planned to start in 2008. Former director of the Institute for nuclear power engineering Vasil Nestsyarenka told the Deutsche welle how the reduction of the construction term would affect the security.

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Next week Russia and Belarus plan to carry out consultations on the state loan for Belarus for financing Russian energy resources deliveries, a Russian deputy finance minister Sergei Storchak said to journalists. The official added that the matter concerns billions of dollars and the sum will be a serious burden for the budget. Besides, these expenses haven’t been included in federal budget for the current year, that is why the budget would need amendments.

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The chairman of the Coordination Council of the private entrepreneurs of Minsk, Alyaksandr Makaeu, has stated that he is to take part in the celebration of Freedom Day on March 25. “I will come to Kalinouski Square on March 25. It’s a day when Belarusian independence in the 20th century was born. All conscious people who care about the fate of our independence should gather on Kalinouski Square on March 25. My personal motivation is that I want business to exist and develop in Belarus freely”.

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Belarus is following the path of narrowing the sphere of the capital punishment use, told the chairman of the “council of republic” of the “national assembly” of Belarus Henadz Navitski at a press-conference dedicated to the results of his visit to Rome.

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On March 25 a youth movement of America organizes a demonstration on the occasion of the 89th anniversary of declaration of the Belarusian People’s Republic.

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The U.S. Administration believes that the situation in the sphere of human rights and democracy in Russia is deteriorating, and in Belarus continues to cause serious concern. According to ITAR-TASS, such a statement has been made by Barry F. Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. He made a statement at a special briefing for journalists dedicated to a new annual report on human rights practices worldwide in 2006 published by the U.S. Department of State.

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