Foreign Ministry: Belarus and the US will continue human rights dialogue

There will be place to discuss “the discussion of contentious human rights issues”, the Belarusan Foreign Ministry promises.

The US and Belarus will continue human rights dialogue, including the discussion of contentious human rights issues in the U. The parties agreed to do that on December 16, 2015 in Washington, D.C., informs the press service of the Belarus Foreign Ministry.

The Belarusian delegation included Director of the Americas Department of MFA Oleg Kravchenko, Deputy Director of Global Policy and Humanitarian Cooperation Department of MFA Irina Velichko, Charge d'Affaires, a.i. of Belarus in the U.S. Pavel Shidlovsky, as well as representatives of the Central Commission on Elections and National Referenda, Ministry of Justice, Office of the Prosecutor General and National Center of Legislation and Legal Studies.

Human rights were discussed in the course of the meetings with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of the U.S. for European and Eurasian Affairs Bridget Brink, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of the U.S. for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Robert Berschinski, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development Jonathan Katz and other representatives of the U.S. Department of State.

Issues of respect for human rights in the context of rule of law were discussed by the Belarusian delegation in the Department of Justice and Supreme Court of the U.S., as well as in the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights, American Bar Association and International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Meetings were organized with the assistance of the UN / UNDP Office in Belarus.