In June, the Ministry of Defence of Belarus was to send a note to the Polish authorities in which it proposed a form of dialog on safety issues..
Almost 2 months after this initiative, in mid-August, our diplomacy decided, in consequence to the questions of journalists, to ostentatically state that "in the current situation Poland categorically rejects the restoration of dialog with Belarus". As our Ministry of abroad Affairs has justified due to the fact that Belarus is liable for the usage of immigrants as a weapon on our east border and due to the support in any forms of Russian military action against Ukraine – "In the present situation we do not see any area for discussion, much more so," says the statement.
It is hard not to get the impression that in fresh years we have not been faced with a more absurd behaviour of diplomacy and equally ridiculous conduct of abroad policy. Even wartime states usually keep any form of open or out - of - court communication. A fewer weeks after the start of the war, Russian-Ukrainian negotiations began. Similarly, in the case of the war in the Gaza Strip, Israel and Hamas concluded a weekly temporary truce in the last week of November. Now direct Ukrainian-Russian talks in Istanbul format are back in progress. The fighting parties shall regularly exchange prisoners and detainees of civilians. In fact, in view of the past of humanity, wars were rare, during which the parties fought at the same time did not negociate with each another and sought to completely crush the opponent, as it was during the Second planet War, which was a full war.
It is worth noting that at the minute there is no full war going on between Poland and Belarus, there are no regular armed actions. The utmost hostility and striving to crush the enemy appeared in these fewer conflicts, in which ideological factors began to play a very crucial role. There's a more clear lead here for knowing a completely unjustified diplomatic position. Radosław Sikorski to Belarus. In fact, the full abroad policy of the 3rd Republic moved in the vapors of the concept of "end of history" and the main goal was to enter western political structures and to service as a relay of the western socio-political, economical and cultural model to the russian East. I would stress that this was a paradigm of politics of all government of the III Republic, including the regulation of law and justice.
For government Beata Szydło uniquely identified in this spirit the head of Belsat Agnieszka Romaszewska was able to sabotage more pragmatic in the Belarusian direction of the then minister of abroad affairs Witold Waszczykowski. Government Mateusz Morawiecki immediately after the 2020 Belarusian elections, he placed everything on the Belarusian opposition by sign Svetlana Cichanowska, he dreamed of creating a Belarusian government in exile, although after about 2 weeks it was apparent that this polite revolution would lose, due to the fact that the strike was not announced by workers of large Belarusian industrial plants – the only social class in the country with a chance to face the apparatus of power on specified conditions as occurred in 2020.
However, the measurement of the idiocy of the politics of Tusk and Sikorski reflects the fact that their attempts to isolate Belarus are being made at the same time as their relations with Minsk intensify the strength which the current diplomacy treats as the surest warrant and sanction of the existence of the Polish state. 15 August ‘excellent conversation with the highly esteemed president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko“ The president of the United States himself did. He added: “The intent of the conversation was to thank him for releasing 16 prisoners. We are besides discussing the release of 1,3,000 more prisoners. Our conversation was very good. We discussed many topics, including president Putin's visit to Alaska. I look forward to gathering president Lukashenko in the future."
The fact that Donald Trump he called Alexander Lukashenko ‘president’, a clear signal that he does not intend to undermine his position or delegate his power, regardless of the reservations expressed by the Belarusian opposition. individual might say that Trump's conversation with the Belarusian president came after the Polish diplomacy's consequence to the Belarusian initiative. United States peculiar Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellog, he met with president Lukashenka and president of the Belarusian KGB in Minsk in June Ivan Tiertiel. A day after this visit, the decision to release a group of political prisoners was announced, to which Donald Trump later referred. This was not an ad hoc decision, but the effect of longer confidential negotiations.
Significantly, there was not 1 of the most celebrated in the group of released prisoners – a writer and activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus Andrzej Pochobut, whose release Warsaw demands as officially as unsuccessfully since his arrest in March 2021. individual could claim that the Polish authorities may have specified confidential conversations, but they do not want to uncover them. I do not know what the intent of this position would be in the context of American action. As in the case of relations with Russia, as in the case of Belarus, a prioritising of communication in advance already isolates Poland alternatively than Moscow or Minsk. In the first case, the Polish authorities will already have serious problems with rebuilding channels of dialogue, due to the fact that this may not be the interest of the Russian elite itself – what they request it for if they are already developing relations with the protector of Poland, whose policy of Warsaw usually follows. We're late. We will shortly be late besides with respect to Belarus, whose leader is surely curious in looking for points of support for a very deep addiction to Russia. The Polish policy towards Belarus, if it is not reviewed, can consequence in a permanent simplification of our function in the region.
Krystian Kamiński
In the photo: gathering of Alexander Lukashenka with Keith Kellog (president.gov.by)
Member of the National Movement, b. MP at the Sejm of the Republic of Poland
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