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La Strada helps Belarusian Human Trafficking Victims
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¹ 38 (264) 28-04.10.2004 September 23 is the International Day of combating human trafficking. Unfortunately, Belarus is one of ten countries where women leave the country in order to have the opportunity to work abroad and instead they are trafficked and forced into slavery.
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Biological age far ahead
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¹ 38 (264) 28-04.10.2004 Experts of the Belarusian Department of the International Gerontology Academy have completed research providing that the biological age of the Belarussians exceeds their passport age by 10-30 years.
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Belarusian delegation to consider in Geneva possibility of Belarus’ accession to WTO
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¹38 (264) 28-04.10.2004 The 6th sitting of the WTO working group on Belarus’ accession would be held on September 30 in Geneva, spokesman for the foreign ministry of Belarus Andrei Savinykh told a briefing last week. According to him, a Belarusian delegation made up of representatives of the Council of Ministers , the economy, finance and justice ministers, the National Bank, the State Customs Committee will go to the WTO Headquarter. As the foreign political department informs, in the course of the forthcoming sitting the sides will discuss a wide range of issues. Among them – consideration of the consolidated report – the basic document that analysis the results of work on studying the foreign trade regime of Belarus in terms of their conformity to the WTO norms. States participants of the working group are also expected to consider actions of the Belarusian parliament on making the national legislation meet the rules of multi-later-at WTO agreements. According to Andrei Savinykh, at the beginning of October the WTO will hold a special sitting dedicated to the agriculture of Belarus, which consider commitments of the republic on the state of the agricultural production.
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The Closure of the German Week
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41(267)19-25.10.2004 During this whole week from the 1st to the 8th of October the Minskers had a chance to plunge into German culture, Politics and Economics. In our previous publication we described the whole program of the week. So now we will concentrate on some remarkable spots of the event.
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Government Lifts Ban on Private Newspaper, Closes Another
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41(267)19-25.10.2004 The Belarusian government lifted 1 a ban on a private newspaper in Molodechno, Minsk region, just as it imposed a penalty on another private newspaper in Volkovysk, Grodno region.
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