‘Everything Is Simple”: Poland Puts Forward Strict Demands To Lukashenka

The Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland accused the dictator of idle talk.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Paweł Jabłoński commented on Aliaksandr Lukashenka's statement about the need to improve relations between Minsk and Warsaw. The diplomat said that “everything is very simple”: it is necessary to release political prisoners and stop the attacks of migrants on the Polish border, Polsat News reports.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Paweł Jabłoński listed the conditions necessary for the normalization of relations between Minsk and Warsaw.

“Stop the advance on our border, release Andrzej Poczobut and more than a thousand political prisoners from prison, do not continue the hate campaign, the hybrid war that you are waging against Poland and Ukraine in alliance with Russia. Then the relationship will improve. Everything is very simple,” the diplomat said.

In the meantime, as Jabłoński noted, Aliaksandr Lukashenka does nothing but idle talk.

“At this very moment, while we are talking, attacks on the Polish border continue. These are empty words, once again we hear such statements, but there is nothing specific behind this,” the Deputy Foreign Minister said in a commentary to Polsat News.

Paweł Jabłoński also stressed that the current Belarusian authorities are responsible for the current state of relations between the two countries.

“We have no hostile intentions towards Belarus and we never had. We want to be safe, we don't want to be attacked. We do not intend to attack anyone,” the diplomat summed up.

On August 11, Lukashenka spoke of the need to improve relations with Belarus' neighbors, including Poland. “I instructed the Prime Minister to contact them. If they want, let's talk, build relationships,” the dictator said.