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US President Bush Receives Belarusian Opposition Leaders US President George W. Bush received a delegation of Belarusian opposition politicians in Washington on December 6, the White House’s press office reported. The delegation, which arrived in the USA on December 2 and left on December 8, included Alyaksandr Milinkevich, a former presidential candidate; Anatol Lyabedzka, chairman of the United Civic Party; Syarhey Kalyakin, leader of the Belarusian Party of Communists; Anatol Lyawkovich, acting chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party “Hramada”; Zmitser Fedaruk, a 17-year-old leader of a youth opposition group Malady Front; Pavel Sevyarynets, a founder of Malady Front; and Enira Branitskaya, a 26-year-old civil society activist who spent six months in prison in 2006 for her work as coleader of an unregistered election observation group Partnyorstva (Partnership). The delegation met with the US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice on December 3 and attended a briefing “The Future Belarus: Democracy or Dictatorship?” on the following day. The politicians also met with experts on Belarus representing US nongovernmental organizations, visited the offices of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Washington Post newspaper. They gave radio and television interviews, met with staff of the US National Security Council and the office of the US Vice President Dick Cheney. Meetings with US lawmakers, in particular Christopher Smith, a member of the US House of Representatives, also took place.

• Месца выхаду: Brussels
• Дата выхаду: 2007-12-14
• Выдавец: Office for a Democratic Belarus
• Copyright: © 2007 by Office for a Democratic Belarus
• Кнігазбор: Kamunikat.org
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