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Two Days of Donors’ Strike Fruitless
18:20, 21/06/2007
In the first two days of a warning strike of blood donors protesting against repeal of benefits, no blood shortage was experienced by Mahilyou haemotransfusion station. The organizer of the protest rally, Honorable donor of Belarus Ihar Kavalenka, admitted that one of the main mistakes of protesters was insufficient informing of donors. 
17:23, 21/06/2007
Vitsebsk city executive committee finds holding pickets “Freedom to Kazulin!” inexpedient. The application for holding pickets in Vitsebsk has been sent to the chairman of Vitsebsk city executive committee Pyotr Drazdou by the leader of Vitsebsk branch of the Belarusian Social Democratic party (Hramada) Volha Shpakouskaya.
15:05, 21/06/2007
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon declared that despite of the annulment of mandates of special speakers on Belarus and Cuba those countries are not releases of the obligation to respect the Declaration on Human Rights.
14:21, 21/06/2007
The governmental newspaper” Respublika” apologized for its recent publications dedicated to the late Pope of Rome John Paul II and the Catholic Church.
14:20, 21/06/2007
The United States ambassador is disappointed with the UNO Council on human rights decision on discharging its speaker on Belarus. K. Stewart also declared that she would continue paying attention to human rights observance in Belarus.
13:46, 21/06/2007
A member of the Belarusian Radio and Electronics Workers’ Union (REWU) was brutally beaten up and robbed at the territory of his enterprise in discharge of his functions. Alyaksandr Byarseneu was one of initiators of creation of a REWU branch at the enterprise. He works as a watchman of an agricultural division of a unitary enterprise Belarusneft-Asobina, www.praca-by.info reports.
12:35, 21/06/2007
The Prosecutor’s office of Pershamajski district of Vitsebsk has appealed against a verdict to the well-known human rights activist Valery Shchukin, demanding to remand the case for a new trial, the human rights activist told to the Charter’97 press-center.
12:09, 21/06/2007
Belarus has been deprived of the system of trade preferences of the EU. This decision has been taken by the EU Council in 2006 because of “systematic violations of trade unions rights in Belarus”. Over the 6 months Belarus was to bring its labour laws in line with norms of the ILO (International Labour Organization). According to the ILO Report published in June 2007, Belarus hadn’t fulfilled most of the requirements. In this connection the European Commission announced that Belarus would be expelled from the Generalized System of Preferences. It means that since July 21 standard European trade charges would be imposed on imported goods from Belarus. They are 3% higher than preferential tariffs the country used before.
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