BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

22/03/2006

Conservatives: William Hague: We cannot ignore Europe's last dictatorship

/noticias.info/ Commenting on the latest arrests of protesters against President Lukashenka in Belarus, Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said:

"The Belarusian authorities' arrest of four senior opposition figures is a sign of President Lukashenka's creeping Stalinism. The international community must shine a spotlight on this and the other gross abuses of civil liberties there, so that democrats in Belarus know that the outside world stands with them.

"We cannot ignore Europe's last dictatorship. Helping the cause of freedom in Belarus should be top of the agenda at tomorrow's EU summit."

Source:

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=158159&src=0

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