Belarusian discovered nothing new in the document, the FM says.
Belarusian foreign ministry commented on the resolution on Belarus adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on Saturday saying there is nothing new for Belarus in the resolution, BelaPAN reports.
“It is a routine paper,”said Ms. Vanshyna, the chief of foreign ministry press-service.
“Such resolutions are adopted on not only Belarus.”
Belarus “is and will be a full-fledged participant at the OSCE, which treats with a responsibly obligations that it has undertaken,” she noted.
“As you know, international observers representing the OSCE, including monitors of the Organization’s Parliamentary Assembly, have been invited to the forthcoming parliamentary elections [in Belarus],”the statement says.
Ms. Vanshyna added that a delegation of the Belarusian National Assembly would, perhaps, be able to comment on the resolution in more detail upon its return from the ongoing session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Monaco.
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In the resolution, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly called on the Belarusian government to immediately and unconditionally release and exonerate all political prisoners.
The Assembly recommended that the International Ice Hockey Federation suspend its plan to hold the 2014 world championship in Minsk until the Belarusian authorities release all political prisoners.
The resolution also called on the Belarusian government to allow representatives of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to visit political prisoners incarcerated in Belarus; suspend the domiciliary arrest imposed on political prisoners released from prison, including Iryna Khalip and Uladzimir Niakliajeu; respect freedom of movement of citizens, including political activists, in Belarus and abroad; reconsider registration applications by the Belarusian Christian Democracy party and Viasna, a human rights organization.
OSCE called to stop the harassment and persecution of civil society, trade unions, independent media and human rights defenders; implement the recommendations of the International Labor Organization with regard to trade unions; respect its OSCE commitments, including the 1990 Copenhagen Document, in particular with regard to the upcoming parliamentary elections; annul convictions and pending charges against journalists for activities connected with their profession; and allow an unrestricted public debate on key social and political issues.
The Assembly has also condemned the executions of Uladzislau Kavaliou and Dzmitry Kanavalau, sentenced to death for their alleged involvement in the April 2011 subway bombing in Minsk, “through a trial that fell short of international standards for rule of law.”
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The OSCE office in Minsk was closed down after the Presidential Elections of 2010.
The Belarusian authorities refused to extend the mandate of the OSCE office in Minsk, explaining this decision that there were no objective grounds for the presence of such an institution in Belarus.
This happened after the OSCE did not recognized the Presidential Elections democratic and transparent.
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