PACE President Plans To Visit Belarus
January 11, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Rene van der Linden, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), plans to visit Belarus on January 18-20.
PACE said its president plans to meet officials and opposition and NGO representatives to discuss European concerns about democracy in Belarus, which is not a member of the Council of Europe.
Today, van der Linden began a two-day visit to Moscow.
(with material from ITAR-TASS)
Demonstrators in Moscow carry a coffin with a television in it to protest government control over broadcasting (TASS file photo)
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