As Warsaw considers response to monk’s arrest, Minsk calls for return to civilized dialogue

September 5, Pozirk. Polish President Karol Nawrocki, currently visiting the Vatican, said he discussed the issue of Polish prisoners in Belarus with Pietro Parolin, secretary of state of the Holy See, Polsat reported.
His comments came after senior Polish officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, pledged to respond to the brutal arrest of Grzegorz Gaweł, a Carmelite monk, in Lepiel, Viciebsk region.
The state-run Belarus 1 channel, linked to the Committee for State Security (KGB), claimed that Gaweł had collected classified information about the counterintelligence command and its officers, military sites and the upcoming Zapad-2025 exercise for Poland’s Internal Security Agency.
“Polish special services do not use monks to gather information about military maneuvers,” Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the Polish minister-coordinator of special services, said on X.
Meanwhile, the Belarusian foreign ministry delivered a protest note to the Polish chargé d’affaires in Minsk, regarding what it called an “act of espionage.” The ministry urged Poland to return to “civilized dialogue and generally accepted forms of interstate communication.”
Polish monk’s arrest in Belarus “provocation” by Łukašenka – Polish special services
- Economy, SocietyLithuania, Belarus report vehicle seizures over smuggled goodsThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Politics, SecurityActivists report 183 confirmed arrests over links to Biełaruski HajunThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Economy, SocietyBiełavija continues to operate flights from DubaiThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Politics
- Politics, SecurityŁukašenka appoints deputy heads of Security CouncilThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- SocietyŁukašenka appoints senior officials to government agenciesThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- EconomyBiełstat: dismissals outnumbered hires by 1.8 percent in JanuaryThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Economy
- PoliticsOpposition leader grateful to Bulgaria for friendship and solidarityThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsBelarus backs SCO statement expressing concern over attacks on IranThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsPress Freedom Report: Belarus hotspot of repression, threats to journalistsThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Politics, Society
- PoliticsLatvia reports five irregular Belarus-EU crossings on March 2The material is available only to POZIRK+
- Economy, Politics
- PoliticsReprisals: two Minsk women convicted of extremismThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsRights groups designate jailed media managers from Baranavičy as political prisonersThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsŁukašenka offers condolences on Khamenei’s death, calls it “treacherous attack”The material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsInterior ministry brands Viejšnoryja group as extremistThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Economy
- Economy, SocietyFour driving schools closed, 11 suspended in Mahiloŭ regionThe material is available only to POZIRK+



