Meeting of Sikorski and Lukashenka was pointless

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland calls on the Belarusian authorities to start democratic “systematic changes”.

Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski addressed the Polish Sejm on April 8 and confirmed the country’s readiness to closer cooperation with Belarus. He again called on the Belarusian authorities to carry out systematic changes on several issues, including the one on the Polish minority, Radio Svaboda reports.

According to Sikorski, these changes, based on principles of democracy and human rights, should include the right to freedom of association that unites the Polish ethnic minority in Belarus. That is the demand of Warsaw.

As PAP news agency informs, the minister said Ukraine had passed a democracy tests. In his opinion, the latest presidential elections demonstrated the quality of the civil society in the country.

‘We hope the Ukrainian politics will facilitate political and economic modernization that was demonstrated by Ukraine’s pro-European choice,” Sikorski emphasized.

We remind that recently repressions against the Union of Poles have intensified. On February 17, the Polish Sejm adopted a resolution condemning actions of Minsk in relations to the Polish minority in Belarus. The resolution includes recommendations to consider return to the policy of sanctions against the Belarusian government.

Amid these events, the Polish foreign minister had a meeting with Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Kyiv. It was arranged to form a Belarusian-Polish commission to solve the situation with the Union of Poles in Belarus. However, the situation in human rights area in Belarus has only worsened.