Belarusian Popular Front calls people to Kastrychnitskaya Square
- 12.12.2007, 8:27
The leadership of the Belarusian Popular Front party has called upon citizens to come to October Square on December 12, at 6 p.m., to hold a rally “For independent Belarus!”
On December 11 at a press-conference of the new chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front party Lyavon Barshcheuski, deputy chairmen of the party except the arrested Viktar Ivashkevich, took part in the press-conference as well. It was Mr Ivashkevich who addressed the congress of the party with the initiative to gather on Kastrychnitskaya Square with white-red-white and European flags on December 12.
“Taking the opportunity, we would like to call upon all pro-democracy Belarusian community, all who are worried by that problem, to come to the rally and support it, expressing their will,” the deputy chairman of the Belarusian Popular front party Yuras Hubarevich said.
“Besides, we call upon participation in further actions if they would be needed in reality. You remember that that union agreement was adopted on Catholic Christmas. It makes people deactivated to some extent. All these parallels hint themselves unpleasantly,” Lyavon Barshcheuski said.
As for the visit of Russian president Vladimir Putin to Belarus, the chairman of the BPF party said:
“All this is always dangerous. The both regimes are playing secret cards now. We do not have complete information. We do not know about their arguments, except general ones, like gas and oil. These are important moments. But they are not final. What strings could the Russian side pull to influence Lukashenka? That is why it is dangerous”.
The first deputy chairman of the party Vintsuk Vyachorka has stated that Vladimir Putin’s visit gives an opportunity to make wide pubic aware of the aim adopted at the congress, which is defense of the independence.
“On the other hand, it is not so important whether he is going to arrive and stifle Lukashenka for concessions in the sphere of political independence, or energy independence of our country. He will press him (Lukashenka) for something all the same. It is alarming that this visit takes place at the turning point of the Russian political history. Why are they addressing the Belarusian question, when reasonably they should concentrate on solving their internal problems? That is why the Belarusian community is extremely alarmed,” the politician believes.