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Lukashenko calls absurd EU sanctions on Belarusian judges
Feb 22 at 14:54 | Interfax-Ukraine"Bravo, our judges work normally. They did not bend to the sanctions. It is completely absurd to impose sanctions on judges. Judges are slaves of law. What sanctions on judges could that be?" he wondered while appointing Sergei Kondratyev as a judge and a deputy chair of the Belarusian Supreme Court.
"Our judges are doing fine. They do not succumb to anyone but continue to mind their business," the presidential press service quoted Lukashenko on Tuesday.
"I have no claims to the judiciary. You must know that I protect our judiciary very carefully from any interference in its work," the president said.
He also said there were no big problems in the national judiciary. "It is impermissible to break the Belarusian judiciary," he said.
As for law enforcement agencies and prosecutor's offices, Lukashenko said that new persons should be promoted to high-ranking positions. "Shall they be young? I do not insist on that. Certainly, we must promote young people. But I prioritize professionalism and loyalty to the country rather than age. I am very glad that the Prosecutor General's Office has begun this work," he said.
There will be a conference in April or May 2012 to define "areas of activity of our prosecutors," he said.