Polish President’s chancellery: “Democratization in Belarus is fiction”

Lech Kaczynski still holds a principal position on the situation in Belarus.

The letter of Alyaksandr Lukashenka to Polish president Lech Kaczynski confirms that “democratization in Belarus is fiction”, Chief of the Chancellery of the President of Poland Wladyslaw Stasiak thinks.

We remind that on February 23, the Embassy of Belarus in Poland said the Belarusian ruler had sent an answer to Kaczynski’s letter of February 16, in which the latter expressed his concern and decisive protest against repressions against the Union of Poles in Belarus. According to the Belarusian diplomatic mission, Lukashenka “responded to all the posed questions by the Polish president and expressed his hope for a balanced and sincere dialogue between Belarus and Poland for the further development of friendly and good relations between the countries”.

According to Stasiak the situation will be solved “if Belarus shows Poland and the EU that it can respect civil rights, in particular, the rights of national min minorities”.

The Chancellery of the Polish President doesn’t comment on details of Lukashenka’s reply. As Secretary of State Pawel Wypych said, the answer of the Belarusian president contains “general words and doesn’t promise changes”. “It looks as if Lukashenka believes all the actions recently performed by the Belarusian authorities totally acceptable and answering the standards of a democratic state,” Wypych said.

As informed earlier, the chancellery officer said Kaczynski was going to write to European Union’s high representatives Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton to acquaint them with the situation with the Polish minority in Belarus and quote the reply of the Belarusian ruler, BelaPAN reports.