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Security forces have attempted to occupy the headquarters of a cultural house of the Polish minority near the Belarusian capital Minsk, arresting 40 people.
The liberal Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza is outraged:
“Polish policy towards Belarus is being put to a hard test. As an answer to the EU’s gesture of friendship to Minsk which came about largely thanks to Warsaw’s initiative, President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime has carried out reprisals against Andżelika Bory.
She heads the ‘Association of Poles in Belarus’, which the regime has yet to recognise. In Minsk they know only too well that those in government in Warsaw cannot remain indifferent to repressions against the Polish minority.
Perhaps Lukashenko has some hidden reason for wanting to cool relations with Poland, which have been improving in recent times.”
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