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Lukashenka at EU Summit in Prague?On February 15, 2009 representatives of the Belarusian expatriate community and political emigrants from Belarus voiced their protest against inviting Alyaksandr Lukashenka to the European Union summit in Prague.The rally was held on initiative of the Belarusian Popular Front’s Youth Movement “Maladoe Adradzhenne”, registered in the Czech Republic as an international NGO. For about an hour the protesters were handing out leaflets containing the appeal by Belarusians residing in the Czech Republic to the citizens of European countries. The appeal expressed protest against Lukashenka’s possible participation in the EU summit, against the agreement on the integrated regional air defense system between the illegitimate Lukashenka’s regime and Russia, and against the crackdown on the Belarusian opposition. Excerpts from the statement by participants of the rally in Prague: “Recent declarations by Belarus’ illegitimate regime that it has radically changed in the last five months, have no logical confirmation. Mass arrests and crackdown on opposition continue. Moreover, young oppositionists are being expelled from universities and schools due to political reasons. They are immediately and by force drafted into the army, even those who are have been declared unfit to serve due to poor health . In the last months five most active youth opponents of the regime have been thus drafted. Last week the Belarusian authorities signed an agreement with Russia on integrated regional air defense system, seemingly as counterbalance to the US-Western European ABM system that also includes the Czech Republic. It means that the regime in Belarus openly opposes the European Union, namely in the military sense. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH AGREEMENT WITH A DICTATOR! The aim of our protest is to prevent another mistake. It concerns not only the Czech Republic, but the whole of free Europe. Betrayal of democratic principles is the first step towards the European Unions’ collapse. SAY NO TO INVITING THE DICTATOR!!! The pro-democracy community of Belarusians in the Czech Republic”. This article appeared in Belarusian Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 --------------------------------------------- Copyright 2009 Belarusian Review All rights reserved. belarusianreview@hotmailcom
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