BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

16/03/2007

Isolationist policy harms democracy in Belarus, says Ukrainian president

Copenhagen, March 16 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko believes Belarus should be "returned to the European dialogue."

"We believe that the policy of the total isolation of Belarus harms the development of democracy in that country," the Ukrainian president told members of the Danish Foreign Policy Society, politicians, public figures, diplomats, journalists, and parliamentarians in Copenhagen on Thursday.

"Belarus does not ask us to act as its advocate. But we are its neighbors. We are interested in Belarus reentering the European dialogue," he said.

Source:

http://www.interfax.kiev.ua/eng/go.cgi?31,20070316005