Belarusian authorities can miss their opportunity

“We’d want to receive a signal from Belarus about the destiny of political prisoners,” Gernot Erler, Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office said in the interview to BelaPAN. The Minister of State emphasised the importance of “confidence between government, civil society and opposition.” G. Erler said the Belarusian authorities had laid the foundation of such relations, he also expressed his hope that an opportunity to build them wouldn’t be missed.