Cichanoŭskaja to push for Belarus strategy during Poland visit
January 8, Pozirk. Belarusian opposition leader Śviatłana Cichanoŭskaja will meet with the Polish premier and president during her three-day visit to Poland that began today, her aide Franak Viačorka has told Pozirk.
The politician was planning to meet with Prime Minister Donald Tusk today to discuss priorities of the Polish EU presidency, he said.
Meetings with Polish President Andrzej Duda, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and several other ministers are scheduled for tomorrow with an official reception to follow in the evening.
The opposition leader will discuss efforts to secure the release of political prisoners and preparations for the Kościuszko Forum in Gdańsk in early February focusing on European solidarity and a strategic vision of Belarus.
Cichanoŭskaja is also expected to attend the joint meeting of the Polish parliamentary EU Affairs Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee along with her Warsaw-based associate Pavieł Łatuška and other opposition activists.
Her visit will conclude on January 10 with talks with Jennes de Mol, ambassador of the Netherlands to Poland and Belarus, Gazeta Wyborcza‘s editor in chief Adam Michnik and others.

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