{"id":96449,"date":"2024-07-19T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/96449\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"belarus-opposition-leader-meets-with-orban-vucic","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/96449\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 opposition leader meets with Orban, Vu\u010di\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 19, Pozirk.<\/strong> Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja has held talks with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n and Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meetings took place on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit in the United Kingdom yesterday, her aide Franak Via\u010dorka has told Pozirk<\/em>, without commenting on details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cichano\u016dskaja might have used the opportunity to appeal to the Serbian leader against extraditing to Belarus filmmaker and opposition activist Andrej Hniot arrested in Serbia in October 2023 at the request of the Belarusian police. Hniot is under house arrest in Belgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Serbia, an EU candidate, joined the EU sanctions against Belarus in 2021 and supported further restrictions introduced for Alaksander \u0141uka\u0161enka’s support of Russia’s war on Ukraine, but Minsk has been making a diplomatic effort to persuade Belgrade to change its policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n Cichano\u016dskaja and Orban\n <\/div>\n \n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Hungary is the only European Union member to maintain official contacts with the Belarusian government, accused of human rights abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budapest has aligned itself with the EU sanctions against Minsk, but Hungarian officials have repeatedly stated their opposition to that policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orb\u00e1n was in Minsk on an official visit in June 2020, weeks before the Belarusian presidential election that sparked country-wide protests and a politically-motivated crackdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hungarian Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 visited Minsk in May after coming to Belarus twice last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last September, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka accepted credentials from Hungary\u2019s Zita Bencsik, the only EU ambassador to present credentials to the Belarusian ruler after the disputed presidential election on 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 1, Hungary assumed the six-month presidency of the EU Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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