Yarmoshyna hopes to leave for Paris after “election”

Statements saying ban for entry the EU may be lifted for Belarusian officials have been heard often for the last time. Officials begin to make plans.

Head of the Central Election Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna, who was put on the list of restricted to travel abroad for rigging the “election” results, said to Euroradio she had got tired of Turkey and Egypt and was looking forward to an opportunity of visiting Europe.

“I am afraid to suppose this happiness is possible, but when it is true, I will be able to choose a good trip next year,” she said.

She told where she would like to get and what she would choose.

“It is certainly Paris, certainly Venice and certainly Spain, somewhere in autumn. I dream about it. I am an educated person, I am interested in museums, so visiting museums would be a main thing. In general, I think the main thing in any place is its spirit. So a possibility of walking the city, sitting in a cafe, a book A Moveable Feast by Hemingway, who wrote it about Paris, would help to get into the spirit of this city,” Yarmoshyna said.

Member of the 3d “house of representatives” Syarhei Kastsyan doesn’t aspire to have holiday in Europe. However, if a ban of entry EU countries is lifted, he will visit the Czech Republic and Serbia first of all:

“I have never been interested in a holiday in Europe and never dreamt about it, because I like holidays in Belarus. But I’d like to visit two European counties – the Czech Republic, where a center of the International Committee of Slavists is situated, and Serbia to see how it has changed during 5 years.”

By the way, in February 2009, a session of the International Committee of Slavists will be held in Prague, where Kastsyan is expected to spoke. He is invited to Serbia by a local radical party as head of the Slavic Parliamentary Union. So he hopes a ban will be lifted before the year ends for him to have enough time for prepare all documents.

Secretary of the Central Election Commission Mikalai Lazavik doesn’t want to have a holiday in Europe, too. He says he had a good rest in Baravoe Belarusian resting house. However he offends at those who made this list for the fact he couldn’t visit numerous international conferences.

“After these sanctions have been imposed, I can’t visit a number of conferences, organised by the OSCE, the Association of Organisers of Elections for European Countries, where an issue of development of election process and its democratisation was discussed,“ Lazavik said.