Aliaksandr Milinkevich awarded Prize for Freedom

The Belarusian “For Freedom” movement leader, Aliaksandr Milinkevich was awarded the Prize for Freedom in Hamburg on Day of Belarusian Solidarity, November, 16.

This award is given annually by the Liberal International – an international federation of liberal parties, whose members are more than 60 political parties from more than 56 countries of the world. This Prize is presented to an individual that made an outstanding contribution to human rights and political freedoms.

- Awarding the Liberal International’s Prize for Freedom is an important international acknowledgement of the activity of Belarusian democratic forces, activity on defence of the human rights and spreading the democratic values in our country, - Aliaksandr Milinkevich noted. – I am thankful to the international union of liberal parties for support of our intentions for democratization and Europeisation of Belarus. Your support is very important for us.

A. Milinkevich expressed his confidence that “soon we’ll have an opportunity to assure all pessimists that Belarus can be a free, democratic country of the responsible citizens, who don’t need both present and other authoritarian rulers.”

Previous winners of the Liberal International’s Prize for Freedom were such famous politicians as president of Czech Republic Vaclav Havel, German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, leader of the Russian party “Yabloko” Grigory Yavlinsky, president of Estonia Lennart Meri, and prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto.