Alyaksandr Milinkevich to Meet European Parliament Deputies :: Charter'97 :: News

Today, February 8, Alyaksandr Milinkevich starts his one-day visit to Brussels. In the framework of the Study day on Belarus in the European Parliament in Brussels organized by the European People’s Party (the EPP-ED Group), the leader of the united democratic forces is to have a number of important meetings and talks with the leadership of the European parliament.

The topics of the negotiations are urgent issues of the EU policy concerning Belarus, and prospects of resuming economic and political cooperation of the united Europe with our country. Meetings with Jacek Saryusz Wolski, Chairman of the European parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Joseph Daul, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group are planned.

On the Study Day on Belarus in the European Parliament a broad discussion on the political situation in Belarus and possible scenarios of its development are to take place. MEPs, representatives of the EU Council, PARE, and the U.S. Department of State are to take part in the discussion.

In his trip to Brussels Alyaksandar Milinkevich is accompanied by Vintsuk Vyachorka, Chairman of the Belarus Popular Front, Zhana Litsvina, the chair of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, and a well-known Belarusian sociologist Andrei Vardamatski.