Ban on trips for Chernobyl kids 'exaggerated'

[Dunnit]

From Metro Eireann multicultural weekly
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Ban on trips for Chernobyl kids ‘exaggerated’ – top Belarusian official

Written by Viktor Posudnevsky
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
REPORTS OF a ban on Belarusian children’s trips to Ireland are exaggerated, according to a top Belarusian official.

The director of the state department that oversees recuperative trips for Chernobyl-affected children has branded as “nonsense” reports that such visits to Ireland were now banned. However, speaking to Metro Éireann on Monday he said that Ireland must sign a treaty ensuring the safe return of Belarusian children if cooperation is to continue.

“We have programmes ongoing all throughout the academic year, and children will continue to go on trips as they did,” said Alexander Kolyada, the director of the department for humanitarian activity in Belarus. “Nobody is saying that recuperative trips are being banned.”

In mid-August his department announced that it was suspending recuperation programmes in the United States following an incident in which a 16-year-old girl refused to go back to Belarus. However, according to Kolyada, there was no talk of suspending or banning similar programmes in Europe. “This is complete and utter nonsense,” Kolyada said.


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[Vega1447]

From Metro Eireann multicultural weekly
http://www.metroeireann.com/index.php?o ... ew&id=1421

Ban on trips for Chernobyl kids ‘exaggerated’ – top Belarusian official

Written by Viktor Posudnevsky
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
REPORTS OF a ban on Belarusian children’s trips to Ireland are exaggerated, according to a top Belarusian official.

The director of the state department that oversees recuperative trips for Chernobyl-affected children has branded as “nonsense” reports that such visits to Ireland were now banned. However, speaking to Metro Éireann on Monday he said that [color=#FF0000]Ireland must sign a treaty ensuring the safe return of Belarusian children if cooperation is to continue.[/color]

“We have programmes ongoing all throughout the academic year, and children will continue to go on trips as they did,” said Alexander Kolyada, the director of the department for humanitarian activity in Belarus. “Nobody is saying that recuperative trips are being banned.”

In mid-August his department announced that it was suspending recuperation programmes in the United States following an incident in which a 16-year-old girl refused to go back to Belarus. However, according to Kolyada, there was no talk of suspending or banning similar programmes in Europe. “This is complete and utter nonsense,” Kolyada said.
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WTF. Is this guy suggesting that Belorussian kids are being kidnapped or abused while in Ireland?

From what little I know about the place, Ireland (rain and all) is an earthly paradise in comparison.

What is the real reason?

[seabhcan]

In the 1950's Ireland banned the adoption of Irish children from orphanages by foreign parents in the fear that the children would be mistreated by those nasty foreigners. Thus the kids were kept in Ireland under the care for priests and monks, and we know how that turned out.

What was the motive behind that ban? Probably national pride, like belorus' ban.

[Vega1447]

In the 1950's Ireland banned the adoption of Irish children from orphanages by foreign parents in the fear that the children would be mistreated by those nasty foreigners. Thus the kids were kept in Ireland under the care for priests and monks, and we know how that turned out.

What was the motive behind that ban? Probably national pride, like belorus' ban.

In Irish case surely the problem was that they might loose "the Faith"?

[lostexpectation]

Ireland must sign a treaty ensuring the safe return of Belarusian children if cooperation is to continue.

sounds perfectly reasonable to me

[Keith-M]

Ireland must sign a treaty ensuring the safe return of Belarusian children if cooperation is to continue.

sounds perfectly reasonable to me

Indeed, other countries like Italy have no problem signing up.

[FutureTaoiseach]

I think what the Belarusian regime is really bothered about is that they don't want their citizens to experience Western freedom, compared to the repressive dictatorship of the Lukashenko regime.

[lostexpectation]

ah shure that the same as the french guys lying and scamming to resuce those poor black babies.