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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8767

12 August 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/byelorussia/olympic games

11/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Byelorussian sports minister Jurij Sivakov will not head his country's delegation to the Olympic Games that open this week (see Europe of 7 August, p.2, on the EU's statement about reports of Sivakov being one of the people responsible for disappearances and assassinations when he was interior minister and hence being persona non grata in Athens). According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sivakov made the decision after a meeting with President...