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Statement on Belarus

Delivered by Deputy Chief of Mission Josiah Rosenblatt

to the Permanent Council, Vienna

October 28, 1999

We would like to remind the Council that former Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Chigir remains imprisoned on trumped-up charges. It has now been thirty-one weeks since the United States first raised this issue before the Permanent Council.

The U.S. also remains concerned about the disappearances of Tamara Vinnikova, Yuri Zakharenko, and Viktor Gonchar.

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