Statements

Statement #4 of the long-term International Monitoring Mission

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 16:31

February 21st, 2011
Minsk

“On the observance of the standards on openness and publicity of court proceedings while handling the criminal cases in regard to the participants of the events on December 19th, 2010”

Statement # 3 of the long-term International Monitoring Mission

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 21:00

January 14th, 2011,
Minsk

Statement #2 of the long-term International Monitoring Mission

Submitted by admin on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 21:00

January 3rd, 2011
Minsk

News of Belarus

President welcomes the release of Ales Bialiatski

Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/21/2014 - 00:00

Today, Ales Bialiatski, a prominent Belarusian human rights defender who became the first laureate of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize in 2013, was released from prison after spending almost three years behind bars.

Commission Starts Negotiations of Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements with Belarus

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/04/2014 - 00:00

Commission DG for Home Affairs, Stefano Manservisi and Belarus Deputy Foreign Minister Alena Kupchyna met in Brussels to launch the negotiations on Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements between the EU and Belarus. Since 2011 the Commission has been regularly reminding of its readiness to launch the negotiations.

The negotiations will focus on agreements to facilitate the procedures for issuing short-stay visas as well as the readmission of irregular migrants between the European Union and Belarus.

Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski could walk free

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/21/2014 - 00:00

The political prisoner can be “pardoned” if “it is proved the damage he caused with the tax fraud has been repaid.”