{"id":206037,"date":"2026-10-02T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/206037\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T23:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:07:12","slug":"belarusian-ambassador-meets-with-georgian-presidential-administrations-head","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/206037\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian ambassador meets with Georgian Presidential Administration\u2019s head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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October 2, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Belarusian Ambassador Mika\u0142aj Raha\u0161\u010duk met with Luka Ekhvaia, head of Georgia\u2019s Presidential Administration, in Tbilisi on October 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raha\u0161\u010duk and Ekhvaia discussed pressing issues of Belarusian-Georgian cooperation, confirming interest in maintaining a constructive dialogue and further developing mutually beneficial cooperation, the Belarusian foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgian Ambassador Giorgi Saganelidze has frequently been in the public eye recently. On August 31, Saganelidze met with Ihar Siarhiejenka, chairman of the House of Representatives. On September 2, he met with Belarus\u2019 Prosecutor General D\u017amitryj Hara to discuss the extradition of \u201ccriminals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 11, Georgian police attach\u00e9 Davit Atabegashvili, a former police official blacklisted by the Baltic states for his alleged role in the arrest and imprisonment of independent Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, assumed his duties in Minsk. The Belarusian interior ministry reported that he would coordinate cooperation with Belarusian law-enforcement agencies, and Minister Ivan Kubrako\u016d expressed readiness to share Belarus\u2019 experience fighting \u201cextremism and terrorism\u201d \u2013 the terms authorities use to describe any dissent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, a visa-free country for Belarusians, is home to about 12,000 citizens of Belarus, many of whom fled their country for fear of politically-motivated persecution after the 2020 presidential election, but their number keeps shrinking. Georgia has not granted asylum to a single Belarusian under the Georgian Dream government of pro-Russian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili over the past seven years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Georgian authorities have been expelling Belarusians on a regular basis as part of their anti-immigration campaign, with eight expulsions in January-March 2026 alone, compared with six in 2025 and only three between 2019 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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