{"id":399,"date":"2009-03-28T14:05:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T12:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/?p=399"},"modified":"2009-06-05T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:00:20","slug":"verhagen-blijft-tegen-uitnodiging-lukashenko-aan-oost-west-top-in-praag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Verhagen blijft tegen uitnodiging Lukashenko aan Oost-West top in Praag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/verhagen.bmp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minister Verhagen stelde dat de uitnodiging van Lukashenko voor de top in Praag de mensenrechtensituatie in Wit-Rusland zou trivialiseren.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/verhagen.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/verhagen.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bron: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2009\/03\/27\/europe\/EU-EU-Belarus.php\" target=\"_blank\">The International Herald Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lukashenka should not be given a political platform,&#8221; he said at an EU foreign ministers meeting. The ministers debated plans for the EU leaders to sign an &#8220;Eastern Partnership&#8221; with their counterparts from Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus in Prague on May 7. Concerned about Lukashenka&#8217;s authoritarian rule, the EU imposed a travel ban on him and 34 other Belarusian officials in 1999, along with freezing their assets. The travel ban was lifted recently to allow Lukashenka &#8211; whom some in the West call &#8220;Europe&#8217;s last dictator&#8221; &#8211; to amend his ways and come to Prague.<\/p>\n<p>The EU foreign ministers made no decision, said EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner who had proposed &#8220;to give Lukashenka another chance.&#8221; She said there was still time &#8220;to see how things will evolve,&#8221; refering to April meetings with Belarus officials and non-governmental groups about human rights and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission hopes to forge closer ties with six ex-Soviet republics &#8211; where Moscow retains much sway. The proposed partnership would offer the EU&#8217;s eastern neighbors free trade, economic assistance, regular security consultations, economic integration, technical expertise and visa-free travel. The partnership will be open to those neighbors that commit to democracy, the rule of law, sound economics and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, EU officials said, Belarus has made modest improvements in its rights record, notably by allowing two newspapers that had been banned to start publishing again. A dozen others remain banned. The EU&#8217;s desire to accommodate Belarus reflects the growing importance the bloc gives to stability on its eastern doorstep. The region is crucial to the flow of energy to the EU.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Verhagen stelde dat de uitnodiging van Lukashenko voor de top in Praag de mensenrechtensituatie in Wit-Rusland zou trivialiseren. Bron: The International Herald Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nieuws-belarus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}