Belarus Democracy Act Will Help Cause of Freedom, Bush Says
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President Bush signed into law October 20 a bill that authorizes assistance for democratic opposition movements in Belarus and also applies economic sanctions against the Central European country.
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The president of Belarus, confident of  victory in a referendum on Sunday to extend his rule, promised  to serve his people better if they voted "yes" and told the  West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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Bush echoed Wilsonian themes in an address that linked US security to the global spread of freedom, and even his domestic policies to freedom.
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President Bush said on Saturday that the hostage siege in which 322 people were killed at a Russian school seized by Chechen separatists showed why America has to remain resolute against terrorism.
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President Bush said on Wednesday he  was concerned that recent decisions by Russian President  Vladimir Putin could undermine democracy in Russia.
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US president George W Bush has offered his support to efforts to achieve a breakthrough in the Northern Ireland political process.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said the high percentage of votes in favor of the referendum showed that the people supported Belarus course.
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The president of Belarus, confident of victory in a referendum Sunday to extend his rule, promised to serve his people better if they voted "yes" and told the West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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President Alexander Lukashenko vowed Tuesday to retain tight control over the KGB in Belarus, saying the security agency should do more to monitor political dissent. Human rights activists said the move signaled a further crackdown of opposition groups in the former Soviet republic.
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Belarus has voted to allow its president, Alexander Lukashenko, the right to run for a third term in office, the top election official said this morning.
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The US president, George Bush, calls on the people of Pakistan to continue with the democratic process for which ex-PM Benazir Bhutto "bravely gave her life"
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President Bush told a Thursday news conference he would continue to lead the United States in promoting freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
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President Bush sought in his second inaugural speech to define his new term as a fight for freedom in every nation with the "ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." At home, he urged a divided nation to find the unity it had felt after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko, seen in the West as Europe's last hard-line leader,  expressed delight Monday at an endorsement of his plan to stay  in power and said he saw no reason to alter policy.
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President Bush signs a law offering support for human rights groups in North Korea and refugees who leave.
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Setting up possibly another showdown with Russia, U.S. President George W. Bush today said "the time is now" to grant independence to the Serbian province of Kosovo and called on Moscow not to slow down the process. "I happen to believe it's important to push the process along," Bush said during his visit to Albania.
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President Bush's speech cast his presidency as a seamless struggle in defense of the nation's founding creed: freedom.