Brussels, 21/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 20 December, the Council adopted a regulation temporarily excluding Belarus from the EU's generalised system of preferences (GSP), of which it had been a part, in line with regulation 980/2005. Noting that Minsk continued to violate the principles set out in the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) conventions 87 (on freedom of association and protection of the right to organise) and 98 (on the right to organise and to bargain collectively) and...