EUobserver.com
The European Parliament is to give broad political backing for EU states to next week partly suspend Belarus sanctions. The Vienna-based pan-European security club, the OSCE, lent its support to the move in Minsk on Tuesday.
EurActiv.sk
Belarus opposition leaders urged the EU not to recognise the results of six-day parliamentary elections which ended on Sunday (28 September), in which allies of President Alexander Lukashenko, seen as Europe’s last dictator, claimed all the seats in the 110-strong parliament.
EUobserver.com
The European Commission has proposed inviting Belarus foreign minister Sergei Martynov to a high-level EU meeting, breaking a four-year long taboo on contact with the eastern European dictatorship.
Own press release
Member of the European Parliament Árpád Duka-Zólyomi during today’s plenary appealed to his colleagues to take a more concrete position regarding the political situation in Belarus.
Own press release
“Europe must recognise the lawlessness of the campaign conditions of the Belarus presidential elections scheduled for March 19 2006″, said Mr Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Member of the European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Belarus and one of the few European observers at the Congress of Democratic Forces in Minsk on 1-2 October 2005.
