Sikorski will arrive to support Belarusian dictator?

• 26.10.2010, 15:12

In the first half of November the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radoslaw Sikorski is to visit Belarus.

Rzeczpospolita has informed about that with a reference to a source close to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

Radoslaw Sikorski plans to meet with his Belarusian counterpart Syarhei Martynau, representatives of the Union f Poles in Belarus (not recognized by the Belarusian authorities), Radio Racyja informs.

A Belarusian politician Vintsuk Vyachorka says that a possible visit of Sikorski to Minsk was discussed long ago. Last time Radoslaw Sikorski met with Syarhei Martynau in the run-up to the presidential election of 2008:

“Unfortunately, all European politicians, who were initiators of the U-turn two years ago, did not have and probably won’t have courage or political responsibility to admit the failure of this plan of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s reformation by the way of stroking the regime the right way. Regrettably, this is a departure from fundamental European values, so it is not important whether Lukashenka would look at the neighbouring capitals with friendly eyes. The most important thing is, what state model and what political system exist here; and it is incompatible with Europe, incompatible with the principles of freedom, respect to human rights,” Vyachorka said.

According to Vintsuk Vyachorka, if Sikorski’s visit takes place, this visit would be primarily used for propaganda in the run-up to the elections, as it happened with the recent visit of Dalia Grybauskaitė to Minsk.