GERMANY UNDERMINES BELARUS - YOUNG
SPD LEADER EXPELLED
Dateline: 31st August 2003
DÜSSELDORF/MINSK: A HIGH RANKING MEMBER OF THE YOUTH ORGANISATION
OF THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT PARTY - THE SPD - HAS BEEN EXPELLED FROM BELARUS
FOR SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES. THE YOUNG POLITICIAN HAD ORGANISED, WITH
FUNDS FROM THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, "SEMINARS" TO PROMOTE
OPPOSITION TO THE BELARUSIAN PRESIDENT LUKASCHENKO.
The German Government has been working for several years on the overthrow
of Lukaschenko in order to promote the "Transformation" of
White Russia and its subordination to German interests.
The expelled activist, Jan Busch, the "Team leader for international
Affairs" on the North Rhein Westphalia State Committee of the Young
Socialists, is accused by the Belarusian authorities of transporting
large amounts of cash to Belarus and organising the German Foreign Office
funded seminars which agitated against the elected president. The Minsk
Government had already forbidden such a seminar in December 2002.
GERMAN "NETWORK" IN BELARUS
The North Rhine Westphalia Young Socialists have been working since
the early 1990s on a "Network" which was to be oriented towards
the political ideas of the young SPD. The nurture close connections
with the Social Democrat Party of Belarus which would pay of that Party
were to be elected. In the past year the SPD youth organisation had
carried out another German Foreign Office funded project in Belarusian
towns through which young people were taught about taking part in local
elections. The project continues.
An "Outline Paper" of the Young Socialists talks of the "Building
of democratic structures of civil society" which would be an "important
contribution to a progressive development in Belarus". This was
necessary because "Belarus is still at the beginning of the transformation
process".
White Russia, despite strong pressures from abroad, consistently refuses
to subordinate itself to German interests and to sell its domestic economic
interests to Western big business. Berlin has therefore concentrated
on the "Transformation" of the State and has worked towards
the removal of the democratically elected President Lukaschenko.
Numerous advance organisations of the German Foreign Office are located
in Minsk and other towns in Belarus, including the social democrat political
foundation the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Centre for Applied Political
Research and the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation.
The leader of the OSCE Representation in Minsk Eberhard Heyken took
up office on 10th February 2003. For the second time in succession the
post is taken by a German.
For further infornation and sources see the following on german-foreign-policy.com
1) s. auch Weißrussland ,,Schurkenstaat"
2) s. auch Berlin verstärkt Unterstützung der weißrussischen
Opposition
3) s. auch Tod eines ,,Deutschen" und ,,Grenzüberschreitende
Kooperation" sowie ,,Wirksamste Instrumente der deutschen Außenpolitik"
4) s. auch Belarus: Destabilisierung durch ,,intensive Förderung
der Zivilgesellschaft"; zur IRZ s. Hintergrundbericht: Deutsche
Stiftung für internationale rechtliche Zusammenarbeit
5) s. auch Ehemaliger Präsident des deutschen Auslandsgeheimdienstes:
Wahlen in Weißrussland ,,unfair"
Quellen:
Strukturpapier NRW Jusos 2001; Beschluss der Strukturkommission/Einstimmig
Juso-Mitglied wegen Jugendseminar in Weißrussland ausgewiesen;
www.belarusnews.de 18.08.2003
,,Seminare sind subversive Tätigkeit"; Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung 19.08.2003
