Sunday April 19, 2009
Shunned Belarus handed invitation from EU
Andrei Makhovsky
independent
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, long shunned in the West, was handed an invitation yesterday to attend an EU summit with former Soviet republics in Prague next month, his foreign minister said.
It was not certain whether Lukashenko, who has faced accusations in the West of crushing fundamental rights, would attend the Eastern Partnership summit in Prague in person – possibly embarrassing EU leaders – or send someone else.
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