| Axis of Evil |
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| Belarus--the Missing Link |
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Thursday, November 14, 2002
9:00 AM
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Thursday, November 14, 2002
2:30 PM
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| Location: |
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 |
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| The world is an unwelcome place for Saddam Hussein's cronies. Yet, they are always welcome in Minsk--capital of Belarus. Europe's only remaining dictator, Alexander Lukashenko--an advocate of military collaboration with Baghdad--is a menace to his own people, his neighbors, and the United States. In a land where the KGB (yes, still the KGB) runs roughshod over rights, no one is safe, and nothing is sacred. Churches have been destroyed, the regime's opponents disappear, newspapers are closed down, and ambassadors are thrown out of their residences. Can the West work together to eliminate this shame of Europe? Please join the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute, and our cosponsors, Freedom House, the International League for Human Rights, the International Republican Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Pattis Family Foundation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the United States Embassy in Belarus for a conference on Europe's last dictatorship. |
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| 8:45 a.m. |
Registration and continental breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Welcome: |
Radek Sikorski, NAI |
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Introductory Remarks: |
Sam Gejdenson, former member of the House of Representatives |
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Hans-Georg Wieck, former head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Advisory and Monitoring Group in Minsk |
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Michael G. Kozak, ambassador, United States Embassy in Belarus |
| 9:30 |
Belarus: A Human Rights Catastrophe |
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Panelists: |
Pavel Sheremet, author of a documentary on disappearances, formerly imprisoned in Minsk |
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Irina Krasovskaya, wife of Anatoly Krasovsky--Lukashenko's missing opponent |
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Andrey Sannikov, head of Charter 97, former deputy minister of foreign affairs of Belarus |
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Nina Shea, member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and director of the Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House |
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Moderator: |
Thomas Dine, president, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| 10:45 |
Belarus as a Rogue State |
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Panelists: |
Jan Maksymiuk, analyst, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
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Rafal Sadowski, analyst, Center for Eastern Studies in Warsaw |
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Moderator: |
Mark Palmer, president of Capital Development Company, former United States Ambassador to Hungary |
| 11:45 |
Belarus after Lukashenko |
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Panelists: |
Stanislav Shushkevich, former head of state, Belarusian Social-Democratic Party "Gramada" |
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Anatoly Lyabedzka, United Civic Party |
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Vincuk Viachorka, Belarusian Popular Front |
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Andrey Klimov, former member of parliament who was condemned to a hard labor colony for political reasons |
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Moderator: |
Barbara Haig, vice president for programs, planning, and evaluation, National Endowment for Democracy |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Luncheon |
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Keynote speaker: |
John McCain, senator, United States Senate |
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More Information
Linzey Powers
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-828-6021
Fax: 202-862-7171
E-mail: LPowers@aei.org
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Media Inquiries
Veronique Rodman
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-4870
E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
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