CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
January, 20, 2007
http://charter97.org/eng/news/
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GOOD-NATURED VAN DER LINDEN
10:35 20/01/2007

Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Rene van der Linder today at the press-conference in Minsk has told that he supposedly discussed the subject of kidnapping and killing of the Belarusian opposition leaders with Belarusian officials , yet he did not dwell on the concrete outcomes of the talk. Van der Linden responded dimly to the statement of the Charter97 press-center that Belarusian authorities had not satisfied a single condition of the PACE on democratization of Belarus saying
that he did not belong to those policymakers who demand fulfillment of requirements without a step toward the opponent ,i.e he belongs to those who are ready to be the first to stretch the hand. You cant change the country in one night, he repeated several times, because he might have been unaware that Lukashenkas regime had been in power for already twelve years. Van der Linden called talks with Belarusian functionaries open and sincere and declared that all the conditions which he had put forward to
the Belarusian authorities before coming to Belarus were fulfilled. And he didnt mention the fact that he was not allowed to meet the political prisoner Alyaksandar Kazulin, though it was one of the major demands.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/20/press
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CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
January, 20, 2007
http://charter97.org/eng/news/