Strasbourg, 26/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - The half-yearly assessment carried out by the Council and Commission on relations with Belarus has delivered a mixed report, according to Council President Alexandr Vondra. Since November of last year, a number of positive developments have encouraged modest optimism (registration of some NGOs and parties, a number of newspapers have been allowed to publish, meetings of consultative councils). On the other hand, however, one large NGO is still banned,...