Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU's Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, said she was deeply disappointed with the latest events in Belarus.
On May 8 after a 15 days arrest in a detention facility in the town of Staryja Darohi (Minsk district) a democratic activist Vyachaslau Siuchyk was released. "Cattle are kept in better conditions than inmates in Staryja Darohi prison. But
International companies UPS, FedEX, TNT and DHL are not parcel carriers at the territory of Belarus. Such a poster emerged in the National airport "Minsk".
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on May 5 met with visiting Belarusian opposition politician Alyaksandr Milinkevich to discuss the situation in Belarus, BelaPAN said.
On 3 May activists of the civil campaign "European Belarus" hung out national flags and banners calling to release political prisoners Alyaksandr Kazulin, Andrei Kim and Syarhei Parsyukevich in the Minsk city district Zakhad.
Lawyer Dzmitry Harachka visited US citizen Emanuel Zeltser in the Belarusian KGB jail. As the lawyer told to the Charter'97 press center, his client continued to complain about health problems and about the fact he is not given necessary medicines.
