Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Charter 07, September 10, 2001 PUTIN CONGRATULATES LUKASHENKO WITH ILLEGITIMATE "CRUSHING VICTORY" President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in a phone conversation congratulated Alexander Lukashenko with landslide victory at presidential elections. Putin's press-center reports that during the talk both presidents vowed readiness to "further deepen all-round cooperation and contacts at all levels in building up the union state". Putin congratulated Lukashenko one hour before the OSCE declared elections illegitimate. Now Putin is risking to run into trouble with Europe, due to his "all-level contacts with Europe's sole dictator". OSCE DOESN'T RECOGNIZE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN BELARUS Belarusian presidential elections were announced as not corresponding to international standards, said at today's press-conference in Minsk OSCE election monitoring mission representatives. The participants of the press-conference underscored that their observation was very limited and was accompanied by numerous law violations by the authorities, like imposed control over press and pressure exerted on observers. WESTERN PRESS PREDICTS ISOLATION OF EUROPE'S MOST TOTALITARIAN REGIME The West distrusts the outcomes of the election results in Belarus. The journalists rest assured that the poll was forfeited, calling Lukashenko everything from "a whiskered dictator, inspired by Hitler and Stalin". more ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
