Aliaksandr Milinkievich Participates in the European Parliament’s session

European parliamentarians will discuss and adopt a resolution on Belarus at the next plenary session in Strasbourg.

 

Aliaksandr Milinkievich, the Movement for Freedom (the MFF) leader, takes part in the discussion of the draft resolution on Belarus proposed for the adoption at the plenary session.

 

It was due to the multilateral meetings and consultations of Milinkievich with the European leaders during the European People’s Party congress that the issue of considering and passing the resolution on Belarus was returned to the agenda of the European Parliament’s plenary session.

 

The basis of the European Parliament’s draft resolution is the resolution passed at the EPP congress.

 

The draft resolution points out that the financial support for Belarus on the part of the European Union should obligatory be provided after the implementation of the tangible steps on democratization and improvement of the situation with human rights.

 

The European Parliament insists on the Belarusian government using the next twelve months for the demonstration of real progress in the pre-defined directions, including bringing the law On Mass Media to conformity with the international requirements, guaranteeing the freedom of associations by abolishing Clause 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, ensuring real freedom of faith, respecting the national minorities rights, and introducing the moratorium on the death penalty.

 

The draft resolution stresses the importance of continuing the dialogue in the human rights filed and of the further cooperation of Belarus and OSCE ODIHR on the issue of improvement of the Election Code.

 

The resolution calls for guaranteeing political freedoms and rights by way of cessation of the politically motivated harassment (intimidation, dismissal from work, expulsion from universities, and forced drafting into army). European deputies call for the revision of Artsiom Dubski’s case and for urgent freeing of Leanid Autukhovich and Uladzimir Asipienka.

 

The draft resolution presupposes that the Belarusian delegation of the Euronest Eastern Partnership Parliamentary Assembly will be composed of one half of the representatives of civil society and of one half of the representatives of the House of Representatives in accordance with the 5+5 formula. In case the official Minsk does not agree with such formation procedure, the Belarusian delegation would include ten democratic society representatives.

 

Milinkievich will also take part in the festive presentation of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to the Russian Historical and Educating Charity and Human Rights Advocacy association Memorial. Milinkievich who was the 2006 Sakharov Prize winner has already congratulated Memorial.

 

During his stay in Strasbourg, Milinkievich plans to meet with the European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek.

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