[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22946]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



         VISIT TO THE SENATE BY THE PARLIAMENTARIAN OF BELARUS

  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, as the cochair of the House-Senate 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki 
Commission, I had the privilege in July to go to St. Petersburg, 
Russia, to participate, with other Senators, in the annual meeting of 
the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
  During the proceedings, our 17-member congressional delegation heard 
a very powerful speech by Mr. Anatoly Lebedko, who is a leader of the 
opposition party in Belarus. He is a very strong force for democracy in 
Belarus. He is here with us today. He is often faced with overwhelming 
opposition. Yet he has led the fight for the kind of principles on 
which our own Nation was founded.

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