Statement by Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the OSCE 1 March 2012

 PC.DEL/159/12
2 March 2012
 
ENGLISH
Original: RUSSIAN

Delegation of Belarus

STATEMENT BY MR. VALERY VORONETSKY,
PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
TO THE OSCE, AT THE MEETING OF THE
OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL

1 March 2012

In response to the statements by the European Union, the United States of America and Norway

Permanent Delegation of Norway to the OSCE: Statement on Belarus

PC.DEL/144/12 
1 March 2012 
   
ENGLISH only

Permanent Delegation of Norway to the OSCE
STATEMENT ON BELARUS
As delivered by Ambassador Robert Kvile 
to the Permanent Council, Vienna
1 March, 2012

United States Mission to the OSCE Statement on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus March 1, 2012

As delivered by Ambassador Ian Kelly
to the Permanent Council, Vienna
March 1, 2012

The United States remains deeply concerned about serious violations of human rights, fundamental freedoms and rule of law in Belarus.

Statement on the Final Human Rights Assessment of the Events of 19 December 2010 in Minsk, Belarus

United States Mission to the OSCE
Statement on the Final Human
Rights Assessment of the Events of
19 December 2010 in Minsk, Belarus
As prepared for delivery by Ambassador Ian Kelly
to the Permanent Council, Vienna
February 9, 2012

Bialiatski should be set free, says OSCE Chairperson

DUBLIN, 24 January 2012 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore, expressed regret today that prominent Belarusian human rights defender Aliaksandr (Ales) Bialiatski was not freed on appeal.

ODIHR Report on Trial Monitoring in Belarus (March-July 2011)

OSCE/ODIHR Report on Trial Monitoring in Belarus (March-July 2011). Warsaw, 10 November 2011
http://www.osce.org/odihr/84873

 

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OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Resolution “Belarus”, Belgrade, 6-10 July 2011

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Resolution “Belarus”, Belgrade, 6-10 July 2011

Original Source: http://oscepa.org/publications/all-documents/doc_download/681-belgrade-r...

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OSCE Rapporteur’s Report on Belarus (the Moscow Mechanism Report)

Professor Emmanuel Decaux, OSCE Rapporteur’s Report on Belarus (the Moscow Mechanism Report), Vienna, 28 May 2011.

Original Sourse: http://www.osce.org/odihr/78705

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News of Belarus

Human rights defender Tatsiana Reviaka questioned by KGB

Mrs. Tatsiana Reviaka, member of the Human Rights Center Viasna’s Council, has been summoned for “conversation” to the KGB central office, after she received an official writ, saying that she should be questioned “as a person being aware of circumstances that have significance for maintaining the national security of the Republic of Belarus.”

Tatsiana Reviaka visited the KGB office, accompanied by her lawyer.

Ales Bialiatski: “I am a persistent violator!”

Back in the middle of June the imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski wrote in his letter to Valiantsin Stefanovich: “It seems to me that the reprimands I have received are not the last ones”. The new information from Babruisk, where Ales is currently kept, confirms these words. Thus, in his letter to Valiantsin Stefanovich of 5 August he writes about more reprimands, issued to him by the administration of penal colony #2.

Ukrainian civic activists express their disquiet about the visit of President of Belarus to Kyiv

Open appeal to the heads of states, diplomats and representatives of the international organizations:

Ukrainian human rights defenders, civic activists and concerned citizens express their disquiet about the planned visit of President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to Kyiv on July 1st 2012.