20 December 2010
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY 20 December 2010 Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has won a fourth term in office in an election marred by violence and claims of massive falsification. The head of the Central Election Commission, Lidiya Yermoshina, announced that Lukashenka won a decisive first-round victory with nearly 80 percent of the vote. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's observer mission in Belarus says
20 December 2010
DEUTSCHE PRESS-AGENTUR 20 December 2010 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Monday condemned Belarus' latest presidential election and said that the counting of votes was seriously flawed. 'While voting on election day was overall assessed positively, the process deteriorated significantly during the vote count, with observers assessing almost half of vote counts monitored as bad or very bad,' the OSCE said in a
20 December 2010
REUTERS 20 December 2010 International monitors on Monday criticised the conduct of a presidential election in Belarus as "flawed" and condemned a "heavy-handed" crackdown by police on opposition leaders and demonstrators. "This election failed to give Belarus the new start it needed," said Tony Lloyd, head of the short-term observer mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, after President Alexander Lukashenko was
20 December 2010
Belarus Tony lloyd MINSK, 20 December 2010 – Yesterday’s presidential election showed that Belarus still has a considerable way to go in meeting its OSCE commitments, although some specific improvements were made, concluded the international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA). Election night was marred by the detention of most presidential candidates
КОПЕНГАГЕНА, 15 декабря 2010 -- Тони Ллойд, член британской делегации в Парламентской Ассамблее ОБСЕ, назначен Действующим председателем ОБСЕ, Министром иностранных дел и Государственным секретарем Казахстана Канатом Саудабаевым в качестве Специального координатора краткосрочной миссии ОБСЕ по наблюдению за президентскими выборами 19 декабря в Беларуси. Г-н Ллойд был также назначен председателем Ассамблеи Петросом Эфтимиу возглавить делегацию
13 December 2010
Eurasia Daily Monitor 13 December 2010 By: Roman Muzalevsky Volume: 7 Issue: 222 When the Helsinki Final Act was adopted in 1975 to reduce tensions between East and West during the Cold War, few believed in its potential to transform the international security architecture by way of advancing border stability and human rights. Yet, the Helsinki Final Act precipitated the end of the Cold War era and collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the
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