Monday, February 15, 2010
Sikorski offers Lukashenka stick and carrot
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has forwarded a letter to the Belarusian dictator through the head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, Syarhei Martynau.
Today «Gazeta Wyborcza» (Poland) has published a newspaper “Letter to Lukashenka”. According to the newspaper, the letter contains 10 parts, and Warsaw is to that this support them only come in Belarus respects the rights of the Polish minority. The matter concerns among other things, supporting Belarus in issues of receiving a new loan from the IMF, and lifting visa sanctions, beginning of some parts of the Eastern Partnership Program, and even “Belarus’ joining the Council of Baltic States as a full member”.
Gazeta Wyborcza also writes that the Foreign Ministry of Poland is preparing a list of Belarusian citizens for whom entry to Poland and the entire territory of the European Union is to be banned. Unofficially it is informed that the leader of the pro-regime union of Poles headed by Stanislau Syamashka, is blacklisted.
“The term of publishing this list is a matter of hours and days, not weeks,” stated Pyotr Paszkowski, a spokesperson of the Polish FM.
Read more:http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2010/2/13/26350/
Today «Gazeta Wyborcza» (Poland) has published a newspaper “Letter to Lukashenka”. According to the newspaper, the letter contains 10 parts, and Warsaw is to that this support them only come in Belarus respects the rights of the Polish minority. The matter concerns among other things, supporting Belarus in issues of receiving a new loan from the IMF, and lifting visa sanctions, beginning of some parts of the Eastern Partnership Program, and even “Belarus’ joining the Council of Baltic States as a full member”.
Gazeta Wyborcza also writes that the Foreign Ministry of Poland is preparing a list of Belarusian citizens for whom entry to Poland and the entire territory of the European Union is to be banned. Unofficially it is informed that the leader of the pro-regime union of Poles headed by Stanislau Syamashka, is blacklisted.
“The term of publishing this list is a matter of hours and days, not weeks,” stated Pyotr Paszkowski, a spokesperson of the Polish FM.
Read more:http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2010/2/13/26350/
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Belarus,
Foregin affairs
