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July 27, 2004
BELARUSIAN OPPOSITIONS PUBLIC PROSECUTOR CALLS ON GREECE TO DENY VISA FOR SPORTS MINISTER



The German-based Office of the Public Prosecutor for Belarus has urged the Greek government to deny entry to Belarusian Sports Minister Yury Sivakou, who intends to lead the Belarusian delegation to next month's Olympic Games, BelaPAN reported on 26 July. Lyudmila Karpenka, head of the office and widow of opposition politician Henadz Karpenka, said in an appeal to the Greek Embassy in Minsk that Sivakou is on the list of officials suspected of complicity in the alleged abduction of four prominent opposition figures in Belarus. Politicians Yury Zakharanka and Viktar Hanchar, businessman Anatol Krasouski, and journalist Dzmitry Zavadski disappeared in 1999-2000, during Sivakou's tenure as the country's interior minister.


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