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Belarus police did not "break up" opposition rally - Lavrov

13:23 24/03/2006

MOSCOW, March 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign minister said Friday that Belarusian police could not be accused of breaking up a five-day opposition rally in Minsk.

Election results should be contested by legal means, not illegal action, Sergei Lavrov said.

"I would not call what we saw on television a 'breaking up'. What we saw in Minsk cannot be compared with what is going on in a number of European countries," the minister said, apparently referring to ongoing student disturbances in Paris.

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13:23 24/03/2006 "I would not call what we saw on television a 'breaking up'. What we saw in Minsk cannot be compared with what is going on in a number of European countries," the minister said, apparently referring to ongoing student disturbances in Paris. >>

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