The Swedish human rights organisation Östgruppen declared that official Minsk displays "total neglect to the United Nations and human rights". "This is disgraceful and should be severely criticized by the international community", Martin Uggla, the leader of the organization, declared.
«Belarus, as well as all the other states which ratified the United Nations Pact of the civil and political rights, is obliged one time in four years to prepare the report on how it is carried out. However the United Nations received the last official report from Minsk in 1997», the Swedish human rights activists declared, the Belarusian service of Radio Liberty informs.
For this reason the Belarusian Human Rights Centre Viasna and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee prepared for the United Nations an alternative report on situation with the human rights in Belarus. «Complicity of the regime in rough and regular infringements of democratic freedom in the country, the facts of complaints of the Belarusian citizens are mentioned in the report. This testifies to ignoring of certain decisions of the United Nations Committee for Human Rights».
Östgruppen human rights activists emphasized that they want to hear immediately corresponding reaction of Sweden to unwillingness of Belarus to operate according to the United Nations norms. «The Swedish government assumed the main responsibility to struggle for free and democratic Belarus. It means also that they should react to the position of the Belarusian authorities, which display couldn’t-care-less attitude towards the importance of human rights», Martin Uggla said.
«The situation with human rights in Belarus bears heavily on the European Union, since the EU expressed its support to Minsk «, the Swedish human rights activists emphasized.
