The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE January, 16, 2003 www.charter97.org --------------------------------------------------------- Translation and interpreting services - http://charter97.org/index.phtml?sid=4&did=Translate&eid=service&lang=3 --------------------------------------------------------- BROWARD FIRM LINKED TO CHILD PORN 12:28 16/01/2004, By JESSE ABRAMS-MORLEY, www.herald.com Federal authorities say a Fort Lauderdale company transferred payments for a Belarus-based group that operated underage-sex websites. A Fort Lauderdale company is charged with laundering millions of dollars for an international child pornography ring, and two Broward residents have pleaded guilty in connection with the operation, prosecutors said Thursday. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/16/net --------------------------------------------------------- EUROPEAN COALITION "FREE BELARUS" DECLARES NEED OF ALL DEMOCRATIC FORCES UNION 11:38 16/01/2004 On January 15 a meeting of the coordinating board of the European Coalition "Free Belarus" took place. Members of the committee discussed work of the coalition in the last months. It was underlined that the coalition managed to mobilize its activists to support the action "We remember" on December 10, on the International Day of Human Rights. As it had been planned, before Christmas and New Year about a million leaflets-congratulations from the European coalition and Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Narodnaya Hramada". The latest opinion polls confirm that the coalition has made a right choice of its course of actions, and it has a response from the Belarusan people. It is planned to continue the campaign of informing about European values and about the work of the European coalition. Among the negative aspects it was stated that there is no understanding of all democratic forces of Belarus about uniting ahead of the important political events in the country. On account of that why the committee unanimously approved an address to the coalition 5+. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/16/coalition --------------------------------------------------------- RUSSIA-BELARUS TALKS ON GAS ISSUES HAVE DIFFICULTIES 17:09 16/01/2004, ITAR-TASS The talks between Russia and Belarus on gas issues "are plodding ahead with difficulties", Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told reporters on Friday, commenting on a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Sidorsky in an interval between talks. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/16/gas --------------------------------------------------------- ZUBR ACTIONS IN REGIONS 15:38 16/01/2004 The third anniversary of Zubr resistance movement was mark by news energetic actions. Several national white-red-white flags appeared in Baranavichy over the main streets of the city. They were unfurled on wires between nine-storey buildings in the Prytytsky and Charnyshewsky streets. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/16/zubr --------------------------------------------------------- KASYANOV BRINGS PRESSURE UPON SIDORSKY 14:26 16/01/2004 The deadline for concluding an agreement on the introduction of the Russian ruble in Belarus as the uniform payment unit will expire in February, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told Interfax on Friday ahead of his talks with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/16/press --------------------------------------------------------- JAKOV GUTMAN GOES ON HUNGER STRIKE 14:05 16/01/2004 Jakov Gutman, president of the World Association of Belarusan Jewry went on hunger strike as a protest against the policy of creeping state anti-Semitism, informs human rights center "Viasna". http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/16/gutman --------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND CRITICAL ABOUT BELARUSIAN ECONOMY 12:04 16/01/2004 The International Monetary Fund does not respond to the statements of government officials, especially anonymous ones, but can air its own attitude towards the economic circumstances in Belarus. It was the answer of the official representative of the fund Thomas Dawson to the request of the ITAR-TASS to comment on the opinion of a high-ranking representative of the US State Department that "there is a number of difficulties in Belarus that could cause an acute economical crisis". In order to avoid the crisis, according to the American official, Minsk should reduce state control over the economy. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/16/mvf --------------------------------------------------------- EUROPEAN TROIKA NOT COMING TO MINSK 11:33 16/01/2004 An open congress of the European Parliament delegation on cooperation with Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova took place in Strasbourg. The situation in Belarus was discussed there. The head of the delegation Jan Wiersma in his interview to Radio Svaboda commented on the results of the congress and said that the visit of the Parliamentary Troika in Minsk planned for the end of January had been cancelled. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/16/troyka --------------------------------------------------------- (!) Ads on the site: adv@charter97.org --------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE December, 16, 2003 www.charter97.org -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=media.charter97&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com