BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

12/10/2007

Meeting in Prague supports Belorussian effort to join EU, NATO

Prague- Some 40 people today took part in the meeting "Belarus to Europe" on Wenceslas Square in Prague centre to express solidarity with the Belarussian opposition and its activists' efforts for the country's accession to EU and NATO.

Demonstrators carried the historical red-white Belarussian flags and banners, criticising the authoritarian regime of Belarussian President Alexandr Lukashenko.

"This is a meeting of the people who want to see Belarus in Europe," Roman Kovalchuk, one of the participants, told CTK.

Kovalchuk, who has been living in the Czech Republic since 2002, said the event was supported by a number of refugees.

The main meeting of the Belarussian opposition supporters striving for the country's European integration was staged in Minsk today, under the name "European March."

Its organisers said it should be the beginning of Belarus's path to the free and united Europe.

Similar events in support of the Belarussian opposition were also held in other European cities, for instance in Brussels.

Source:

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=276413

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