As Warsaw considers response to monk’s arrest, Minsk calls for return to civilized dialogue

September 5, Pozirk. Polish President Karol Nawrocki, currently visiting the Vatican, said he discussed the issue of Polish prisoners in Belarus with Pietro Parolin, secretary of state of the Holy See, Polsat reported.
His comments came after senior Polish officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, pledged to respond to the brutal arrest of Grzegorz Gaweł, a Carmelite monk, in Lepiel, Viciebsk region.
The state-run Belarus 1 channel, linked to the Committee for State Security (KGB), claimed that Gaweł had collected classified information about the counterintelligence command and its officers, military sites and the upcoming Zapad-2025 exercise for Poland’s Internal Security Agency.
“Polish special services do not use monks to gather information about military maneuvers,” Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the Polish minister-coordinator of special services, said on X.
Meanwhile, the Belarusian foreign ministry delivered a protest note to the Polish chargé d’affaires in Minsk, regarding what it called an “act of espionage.” The ministry urged Poland to return to “civilized dialogue and generally accepted forms of interstate communication.”
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