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Hans-Georg Wieck
(b.1928 in Hamburg, Germany) received his PhD from Hamburg University in 1953. He was a member of the German Foreign Service from 1954 to 1993, working as Ambassador to Tehran (1974-77), Moscow (1977-80), and New Delhi (1990-93). From 1997 to 2001, he was Head of the OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus. Since 1996, he has been Chairman of the German-Indian Society (Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft e.V.) and since 2004, Chairman of the association Human Rights in Belarus (Menschenrechte in Weißrussland e.V.).
Eurozine Articles
Democracy promotion at a dead end
Europe is failing in Belarus
European charters for democratic reform have run aground in Belarus. Expressions of solidarity are not enough: Europe needs to adopt the US strategy of promoting the opposition directly. [Belarusian version added] [more]