On the occasion of the release of opposition leader in Belarus Andrei Sannikov Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov said:
15 April 2012 News
On the occasion of the release of opposition leader in Belarus Andrei Sannikov Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov said:
The release of Andrei Sannikov - one of the main opposition leaders and former presidential candidate is the first good news from Minsk for a long time.
I welcome this decision which is an encouraging first step, and I look forward to the release and rehabilitation of all political prisoners. The completion of this process is a major prerequisite for Belarus to gradually reintegrate in the international community.
The conduct of the parliamentary elections in the autumn will be the next decisive milestone. They have to be free, democratic and multiparty and to give the citizens of Belarus a real choice.
I am convinced that this is the only way for Belarus to be a proud, free, democratic and independent state, as its citizens deserve.