Karol Nawrocki To The Belarusians: Poland Will Never Abandon You

The Polish president is in solidarity with the Belarusian people.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki met with representatives of the Belarusian diaspora, former political prisoners, opposition politicians and journalists. At the traditional meeting, which took place on January 13 at the presidential palace in Belvedere, Karol Navrotsky spoke about the joint history of Belarusians and Poles, according to a correspondent of the website Charter97.org:

- Together with the free Belarusian people we created the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, together we were responsible for the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (interwar Poland - Note Charter97.org), together we fought in uprisings, and their symbol for us, Poles, as well as Belarusians, is Konstantin Kalinowski. We fought together against the Soviet army in 1939, and General Bulak-Balachowicz remains the history of the Polish and Belarusian people.

Karol Nawrocki addressed Belarusians who continue to fight the Lukashenko regime:

- As president of Poland, I want to thank all free Belarusians who are on a hard path that requires you to dedicate yourself, for some to stay in the prisons of the Lukashenko regime. But you are on your long road to independence and sovereignty, and on this path Poland will never leave you.

The Polish head of state also mentioned political prisoner Andrzej Poczobut, whom he awarded in absentia Poland's highest state award - the Order of the White Eagle in November 2025.

"Let this be a symbol that free, independent and sovereign Poland and its president will never forget the Poles imprisoned in Belarusian prisons," Navrotsky said.

Ex-presidential candidate Svetlana Tihanovska, who attended the meeting, thanked and responded by saying that "Belarusians have never been strangers to Poles, just as Poland has always been there for Belarusians."

The former political prisoners - Viktoria Kulsha, Polina Sharendo-Panasiuk, Maksim Znak - were invited to meet with the Polish president, Marina Zolotova, Natalya Malets, Irina Slavnikova, Kseniya Lutskina, Oleg Rubets, Andrey Selyaninov, Vladimir Gorokh, editor-in-chief of Charter97.org Natalya Radina, leader of the civil campaign "European Belarus" Andrei Sannikov, coordinator of "European Belarus" Dmitry Bondarenko, former presidential candidate, poet Vladimir Nekliaev, priest Vyacheslav Borok, three-time Olympic medalist, world and European champion in swimming Alexandra Gerasimenya, Director of the Belsat TV channel Alina Kovshik, journalists Agnieszka Romaszewska, Alexei Dikovitski, Vitaut Sivchik, Sergei Pelesa, Zmitser Lukashuk, Denis Dudinsky, famous actor Oleg Garbuz, the head of the Volnag choir Galina Kazimirovska, the group Naviband, Svetlana Tihanovska, representatives of her office and others.

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