{"id":169598,"date":"2025-12-24T19:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/169598\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"belarus-kgb-maintains-communication-channels-with-lithuanian-and-polish-counterparts-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/169598\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 KGB &#8220;maintains communication channels&#8221; with Lithuanian and Polish counterparts, chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 24, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Belarus\u2019 Committee for State Security (KGB) &#8220;continues to maintain&#8221; channels of communication with the secret services of Lithuania and Poland, KGB chief Ivan Tertel told &#8220;state media&#8221; journalists on December 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen this situation &#8220;[involving overflights by cigarette-smuggling balloons]&#8221; arose \u2026 we got instructions from the head of state to resolve it as soon as possible,\u201d he is quoted as saying. \u201cEarlier, the head of state took a number of decisions as a gesture of goodwill, including pardoning nationals of Lithuania convicted in Belarus. I tell you honestly, my counterpart told me: \u2018That\u2019s it, we are friends with Belarus. Lithuania will not take any unfriendly action.\u2019 Unfortunately, events unfolded differently.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that his agency is also holding discussions with Poland on contentious issues, noting that Minsk &#8220;pardoned convicted Polish spies&#8221; and took other undisclosed steps to meet Warsaw halfway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tertel said that &#8220;three or four contentious issues remain&#8221; in relations between Minsk and Warsaw &#8220;and require reciprocal steps.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQuestions related to the subversive centers [Belarusian pro-democracy organizations] that operate on the territory of our neighboring states \u2026 we discuss with our counterparts openly,&#8221; he said. \u201cThey understand that the projects they planned and launched in 2020 can no longer be implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 11, Belarus freed 14 foreign nationals convicted of spying, including six nationals of Lithuania, two nationals of Latvia, two Poles, two Germans, one UK national and one French national.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tertel-belta-24-12-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tertel-belta-24-12-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tertel-belta-24-12-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tertel-belta-24-12-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tertel-belta-24-12-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tertel-belta-24-12.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">KGB working to prevent opposition-government dialogue, chief says<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">December 24,&nbsp;Pozirk. The Belarusian opposition\u2019s plan for a roundtable with authorities will never come true, Committee for State Security (KGB) chief Ivan Tertel told journalists from state media outlets on December 24. He described the plan \u201ca Ukraine-like scenario,\u201d stressing &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/169568\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 24, Pozirk. Belarus\u2019 Committee for State Security (KGB) &#8220;continues to maintain&#8221; channels of communication with the secret services of Lithuania and Poland, KGB chief Ivan Tertel told &#8220;state media&#8221; journalists on December 24. \u201cWhen this situation &#8220;[involving overflights by cigarette-smuggling balloons]&#8221; arose \u2026 we got instructions from the head of state to resolve it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[14,30],"class_list":["post-169598","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus\u2019 KGB &quot;maintains communication channels&quot; with Lithuanian and Polish counterparts, chief says | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 24, Pozirk. 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