Dutch boycott UN human trafficking conference
The Netherlands is not taking part in a United Nations conference on trafficking in women and children because it is being organised by Belarus interior minister Vladimir Naumov, a foreign affairs ministry spokesman confirmed to ANP on Monday.
Naumov is suspected of being involved in the disappearance of several opposition leaders in the 1990s. Instead, the Netherlands will send a civil servant to act as an observer.
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