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Poland warns Belarus leader: Change or risk coup
AJC ^ | Feb. 2, 2011 | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2011 9:12:11 AM by fightinJAG

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s foreign minister warned Belarus’ autocratic president on Wednesday that he risks being overthrown by his own people if they decide to follow the example of protesters in Tunisia and Egypt.

“Soon a jet plane will have to be kept on standby in Minsk,” Radek Sikorski said, referring to the capital of Belarus. “You are losing ... sooner or later you will have to flee your own country, your own people.”

Sikorski spoke at international donors’ conference in Warsaw where governments pledged millions in aid for the democratic opposition in Belarus, which faces censorship and the constant threat of arrest under President Alexander Lukashenko.

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114 posted on 02/02/2011 8:15:14 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Uncle Ike

Anyone else see WW III on the horizon?


148 posted on 02/02/2011 8:28:13 AM PST by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: Uncle Ike

“Poland warns Belarus leader: Change or risk coup”

For goodness sakes! (p.s. thanks for the post)


522 posted on 02/02/2011 3:17:02 PM PST by HollyB
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