Ms. Tsikhanouskaya congratulated the President of Poland and the Polish people on one of the most important national holidays in the country – 3 May Constitution Day. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya stressed that the Belarusian people, who were part of the Commonwealth, were also proud of adopting the first European Constitution in 1791 and the second Constitution in the world (after the United States).
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Andrzej Duda also discussed:
– the situation with the Polish minority in Belarus. Ms. Tsikhanouskaya condemned the arrests and charges against representatives of the Union of Poles in Belarus and also called national and ethnic persecution in Belarus inadmissible;
– programs for repressed Belarusians, including those to whom Poland has granted humanitarian visas, asylum, and medical rehabilitation;
– the importance of supporting students, academics, historians, journalists, the IT sector, the Belarusian diaspora in Poland, and projects such as Belsat, Euroradio, Radio Racija, Kalinousky scholarship program. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya expressed the hope that these projects would continue to exist, as this helped to build bridges between the peoples of both countries;
– the future integration of democratic Belarus into the Baltic-Black Sea Union and other important regional projects, such as the Lublin Quartet, which unites Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania. This will strengthen economic, cultural, and political cooperation between our countries;
– participation of Belarusian democratic forces in the Eastern Partnership project, as well as at the Eastern Partnership Summit to be held this year in Brussels. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya asked Andrzej Duda to support the establishment of bilateral contacts with the leaders of the Eastern Partnership countries — Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova;
– cooperation with Poland within the framework of the OSCE, the United Nations Human Rights Council, as well as other international organizations, to bring the negotiations closer, as well as to investigate the crimes of the regime against Belarus;
– adoption of the 4th EU Sanctions Package as well as national mechanisms that allow sanctions to be adopted by the Polish side.
