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Aug. 6, 2004
GREECE BANS BELARUSIAN SPORTS MINISTER



Greek authorities have banned Belarusian Sports Minister Yury Sivakou, who is due to lead Belarus' delegation to the Summer Olympic Games from August 11-29, from entering Greece, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported on August 5, citing an unnamed EU official.
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The ban was agreed to by all EU members, and is based on Sivakou's alleged involvement in the disappearance of three opposition politicians and a journalist in Belarus. In a December 2003 report, Cypriot lawmaker Christos Pourgourides, a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe rapporteur on high-profile disappearances in Belarus, suggested that former Security Council Secretary Viktar Sheyman (now prosecutor-general) and Sivakou, a former interior minister, might have been involved in arranging the disappearance of Yury Zakharanka ( May 7, 1999), Viktar Hanchar, Anatol Krasouski ( December 16, 1999), and journalist Dzmitry Zavadski ( July 7, 2000). The EU is expected to issue a statement on August 6 about the Sivakou ban.
Source: RFE/RL Newsline


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