NATO Reviewing Partnership Pact With Belarus
March 29, 2006
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka speaks to reporters on election day in Minsk, March 19 (epa)
March 29, 2006 -- A NATO spokesman today said the alliance has put an 11-year-old partnership pact with Belarus under review after a presidential election denounced in the West as flawed.
NATO spokesman James Appathurai said it was unclear what measures NATO allies might take, but stressed there was broad dissatisfaction within the alliance at alleged vote-rigging and arrests of opponents.
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's landslide victory has been deemed flawed by international monitors, the European Union, and the United States.
(Reuters)