Belarus quits EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative

EurActiv reported that Belarus withdrew on the 30 September 2011 from the EU's 'Eastern Partnership' initiative, aimed at developing closer relations with the countries of Europe's east, denouncing 'unprecedented discrimination' and a 'substitution' of the principles on which it was built in 2009.

• Primary Source

EUObserver, 30.9.11: EU offers to buy Belarus for $9bn http://euobserver.com/15/113794

ESO: Background information: Eastern Partnership http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-eastern-partnership/

Deutsche Welle, 30.9.11: EU slams Belarus, Ukraine over human rights abuses http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15428021,00.html

Polskie Radio, 1.10.11: No agreement on Belarus at Warsaw EU summit http://www.thenews.pl/1/2/Artykul/56091,No-agreement-on-Belarus-at-Warsaw-EU-summit

ESO: Background information: Eastern Partnership Summit Warsaw, 29 and 30 September 2011 http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-eastern-partnership-summit-warsaw-29-and-30-september-2011/

ESO: Background information: Poland urges Belarus transition talks http://www.europeansources.info/servlet/showDoc?ID=1162783

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