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January 26, <\/strong>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka has appealed to Poland to lift sanctions and cooperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe soldier you killed there or your people killed, Paczobuts and other problems are trifles that we can always solve,\u201d he said at a news conference on January 26 in references to Adrzej Poczobut (Andrej Pa\u010dobut), an imprisoned journalist and Polish minority activist, and the Polish soldier fatally wounded by a man who broke through the border fence from Belarus with a group of migrants on May 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Belarusian strongman played down the migration crisis at the Belarusian-Polish border, noting that it was just a tiny percentage of the number of migrants entering the European Union through the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBelieve me, Belarus will never have another president who would want a good relationship with Poland so much,\u201d he claimed. \u201cWhat kind of Polish pride are you possessed by? Why do you treat us like that? . . . We have enough land of our own. We don\u2019t need to attack you or go to war against you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He warned Poland against staking out territorial claims for Western Ukraine, noting that it would have to \u201cdeal with Belarus and Russia\u201d if it does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warsaw has never officially articulated any territorial claims for Ukraine and has supported Kyiv in its fight against the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2023, authorities sentenced Pa\u010dobut to eight years in prison on charges of inciting hatred and calling for sanctions that harmed the national security of Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, Poland closed the Bobrowniki checkpoint at the shared border with Belarus, linking its reopening to Poczobut\u2019s release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warsaw repeatedly urged Minsk to cooperate in identifying a suspect in the murder of Mateusz Sitek, a Polish soldier stabbed at the Belarusian-Polish border several weeks in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gazeta Wyborcza contributor Pa\u010dobut, also known as an activist of the unregistered Union of Poles in Belarus (UPB), has been in custody since March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was arrested after masked police officers raided his home in Hrodna on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the same day, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office announced that it had instituted criminal proceedings against UPB leader Andzelika Borys and \u201cother individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said that the criminal case had been opened under Part Three of the Criminal Code\u2019s Article 130, which penalizes incitement to racial, ethnic, religious or other social hatred and \u201cthe rehabilitation of Nazism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe individuals, positioning themselves as members of the above mentioned union, have organized and held a number of illegal mass events with the involvement of under-18-year-olds in the city of Hrodna and in other localities in the [Hrodna] region since 2018 with a view to honoring members of anti-Soviet gangs that were active during and after the [1941-1945] Great Patriotic War, committed robberies, murdered Belarus\u2019 civilians, destroyed property. Their actions were aimed at rehabilitating Nazism and justifying the genocide of the Belarusian people,\u201d the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, prosecutors also accused Pa\u010dobut of calling for sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Pa\u010dobut refused to petition \u0141uka\u0161enka for pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of five defendants in the case, Pa\u010dobut is the only one to remain in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read: Warsaw working its way toward release of Poczobut \u2013 interior minister<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 26, Pozirk. Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka has appealed to Poland to lift sanctions and cooperate. \u201cThe soldier you killed there or your people killed, Paczobuts and other problems are trifles that we can always solve,\u201d he said at a news conference on January 26 in references to Adrzej Poczobut (Andrej Pa\u010dobut), an imprisoned journalist and Polish minority activist, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":65790,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-123549","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u0141uka\u0161enka urges Poland to lift sanctions, says soldier\u2019s murder and Poczobut\u2019s detention are trifles | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 26, Pozirk. Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka has appealed to Poland to lift sanctions and cooperate. \u201cThe soldier you killed there or your people\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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