From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Belarusian President Pledges to Arrest Spies MINSK, Mar 5, 2001 -- (RFE/RL) "We will arrest and jail spies. If they work under the cover of an embassy, we will expel them. No matter which [embassy will be in question], the U.S. one or some other," Interfax quoted Alyaksandr Lukashenko as saying on 1 March. The Belarusian president was commenting on the previous day's television program devoted to the activity of CIA spies in Belarus. Lukashenko said "several people have already provided evidence" of the activity of foreign special services in Belarus. He added that he promised to release those people in exchange for the information they gave to the KGB. PREDICTS 'BORING' PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Lukashenko noted that foreign special services are incapable of influencing this year's presidential elections in Belarus in any significant way. He said the elections will be held in strict accordance with the constitution, "in a quiet and boring way," from the viewpoint of journalists. "There will be no electoral bacchanalia," he added. WELCOMES MOLDOVA'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS "The elections in Moldova turned out perfectly well. The winners were the same political forces as those that won in Belarus several years earlier. They are centrists," Lukashenko commented on the recent sweeping victory of Moldova's Communists. He said he will accept "with [all his] heart and soul" the idea of Moldova's accession to the Union of Belarus and Russia. He added that the possible accession of Moldova may prompt Kiev to revise its view of the Belarus-Russia Union, including President Leonid Kuchma's "wary attitude" to this alliance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
