BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

12/07/2010

EU Prods Belarus

MINSK - Belarus must accept a "roadmap of reforms" to improve ties with the European Union, a senior EU official said Friday.

Stefan Fule, the EU's Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy, said the EU expects Belarus to abolish the death penalty, end repression and conduct democratic presidential elections next year.

President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, stifling dissent and free media, told Fule that his country would not bow to the EU demands. He told Fule that Belarus "wouldn't fall on its knees before you, Russia or the United States."

Source:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/eu-prods-belarus/410181.html


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