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Belarus: Interpol Chief Disagrees With EU Members

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Belarus, Human Rights, International Relations, Politics, Protest

TOL's Belarus Blog reports [1] that certain EU representatives of Interpol plan to boycott the upcoming meeting in Belarus; Interpol's head rightly disagrees with their position: “‘Why use an apolitical organisation, a meeting of police professionals, to send a political message, when the vehicles they usually have for sending a political message — calling your ambassadors back, closing your embassies, sanctions — are not being sent?’ he said.”