{"id":132094,"date":"2025-03-29T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/132094\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"polish-authorities-look-into-disappearance-of-coordination-council-speaker","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/132094\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish authorities investigating disappearance of Coordination Council speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n An\u017ealika Mielnikava of the Belarusian opposition Coordination Council\n <\/div>\n \n
\n Video still: Pozirk (Senate of the Republic of Poland)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

March 29, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Polish law enforcement agencies have received information that members of the Belarusian Coordination Council (CC) have been unable to contact its speaker An\u017ealika Mielnikava for several days, Polish interior ministry spokesman Jacek Dobrzy\u0144ski said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Polish and partner services have learned that this person has been outside Poland for many weeks. Polish services will support the activities of other countries’ services and the Coordination Council of Belarus to determine the whereabouts of Ms. Mielnikava,” Dobrzy\u0144ski said on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last night, the office of United Transitional Cabinet (UTC) deputy chairman Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka told Pozirk <\/em>that the Belarusian opposition could not get in touch with the high-profile activist since March 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0141atu\u0161ka said opposition leaders are priority targets for Belarus\u2019 and Russia\u2019s secret services. \u201cI filed an official request with Polish law-enforcement agencies to investigate the disappearance of CC speaker An\u017ealika Melnikava. At the request of the law-enforcement agencies, this information has not been disclosed [until now],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Na\u0161a Niva<\/em>, citing its own sources, reported that Mielnikava flew from Poland to the UK without prior notice. It later added that CC can no longer access thousands of euros in its bank accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputy speaker Stasia Hli\u0144nik of the European Choice group has taken the helm of the opposition parliament for now. Hli\u0144nik, a granddaughter of the late Supreme Soviet Chairman Stanis\u0142a\u016d \u0160u\u0161kievi\u010d, is an aide to UTC leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registered voters elected Mielnikava speaker of the third Coordination Council in July 2024. She represented the opposition group Team \u0141atu\u0161ka and Movement for Freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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