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PACE president raises Belarus issue in speech opening spring session 16:15, 18/04/2007
The president of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) stressed that "European unity will also remain incomplete for as long as Belarus remains outside our common European home".
While opening PACE`s spring session in Strasbourg on Monday, Rene van der Linden said that he had "sincerely hoped that the Assembly`s recent constructive approach, culminating in my visit to Minsk, would elicit a positive reaction from the Belarusian authorities."
"But we cannot ignore the arrest and detention of numerous opposition activists, seeking to exercise their right of peaceful demonstration on Freedom Day," he said, referring to a demonstration staged by opposition forces in Minsk on March 25.
"Nevertheless, it is still my hope that we will soon be able to welcome in our midst a Belarus that has committed itself to democratic reform," the PACE president concluded.
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