Byelorussian opposition asks Bush to put on the agenda of G8 summit issue of initiating trial over “Lukashenko’s regime”

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The Byelorussian opposition has conveyed a resolution to US Vice President Dick Cheney asking US President George Bush to put the “Byelorussian issue” on the agenda of the G8 summit, leader of the Byelorussian United Civil Party Anatoly Lebedko has told a REGNUM correspondent on May 4 at the summit of leaders of the Baltic and Black Sea Regions.

“We want our issue to be treated in St. Petersburg not in the context of recognizing outcome of the recently held presidential election, but in the context of carrying out an international public trial over Lukashenko’s regime and, as a consequence, releasing all political prisoners,” continued Lebedko.

Answering to the question of REGNUM whether the opposition is afraid of arrest in Minsk after the summit in Vilnius, Anatoly Lebedko noted that “for 12 years of fight nothing would be a surprise.” “Before coming here, I was taken out of the city [Minsk — REGNUM] by unknown masked people and beaten,” concluded the leader of the United Civil Party, adding that he “guessed, the KGB was behind them.”

It is worth mentioning that the most representative forum of the kind is being held today in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius Conference 2006: Common Vision of Good Neighborhood. President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, Polish President Lech Kaczynski, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, Estonian President Arnold Ruutel, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Moldavian President Vladimir Voronin, Romanian President Traian Basescu, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, US Vice President Richard B. Cheney and EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana participate in the summit.