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Two more Polish diplomats expelled from Belarus

On Thursday, the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told two Polish diplomats in Grodno to leave Belarus within 48 hours. Poland reserves the right to an adequate answer, wrote Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcin Przydacz on social media.

Poland expels Belarusian diplomat following expulsion of consul in Brest

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The Belarusian MFA’s statement reads that the charge d’affaires of the Polish embassy in Minsk, Marcin Wojciechowski, was called to the ministry which notified him about the two diplomats having been told to leave the country.

The notification was given in connection with “an exaggerated, asymmetric and destructive Polish response to the legally valid and justified decision of Belarus against the consul general consulate in Brest, Jerzy Timofiejuk and ignoring the respective requests of the Belarusian side.”

On Tuesday, the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Polish consul in Brest, Jerzy Timofiejuk, to leave Belarus following his participation in an unofficial event devoted to the day of the Polish Indomitable Soldiers, which took place on February 28 in Brest.



According to the Polish Press Agency (PAP), it was a regular, annual meeting of the organisations of Poles from Brest, the city very close to the Polish-Belarusian border.

The meeting in Brest triggered a firm reaction from the Belarusian Foreign Affairs Ministry. In terms of bilateral relations, the so-called Indomitable Soldiers is a very delicate subject, mostly due to the activity of Romuald “Bury” Rajs, the Polish underground state soldier, whose people committed several atrocities on Belarusian civil population in the northeastern part of present-day Poland in 1945-1946.

In response, Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz announced on Wednesday that Poland has declared a Belarusian diplomat in Warsaw a persona non grata in retaliation to the “completely unfounded and incomprehensible decision” to expel the Poland’s consul in Brest from Belarus.

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