BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

17/10/2007

PACE Envoy Studies Situation In Belarus

Andrea Rigoni, the special rapporteur on Belarus in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), arrived in Minsk on October 16, Belapan reported. The visit is Rigoni's first to Belarus as PACE envoy. "We would like to know whether Belarus has made some steps closer to the Council of Europe," Rigoni told journalists on October 17, following a meeting with Vadzim Papou, the chairman of the Chamber of Representatives, Belarus's lower house. Rigoni said the aim of his trip to Belarus is to prepare a report on the situation there, which will be made public at the beginning of 2008. JM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/10/3-cee/cee-171007.asp

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