Strasbourg, 17/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - By 499 votes to 20 with 26 abstentions on Thursday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on Belarus, calling on President Alexander Lukachenko to cancel the planned referendum on changing the constitution vis-à-vis the number of time a president can return to office (see Europe of 15 September, p.7). The MEPs note that this attempt to extend Lukachenko's term of office by referendum is yet another confirmation of the authoritarian manner in...