BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

18/02/2008

Belarus Frees Klimov

MINSK -- Belarus released an opposition leader Friday in what President Alexander Lukashenko described as a gesture meant to help improve his government's ties with the West.

Andrei Klimov, a former lawmaker who was sentenced to two years in prison in September on charges of insulting Lukashenko, was the latest of several opposition figures to be freed from custody in Belarus.

"We have taken an unprecedented step of goodwill, now let's see how the European Union and the United States will respond to that," Lukashenko said. (AP)

Source:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2008/02/18/031.html

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