{"id":211117,"date":"2026-11-09T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/211117\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T20:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:43:43","slug":"no-sign-of-europes-readiness-for-dialogue-after-polands-overture-security-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/211117\/","title":{"rendered":"No sign Europe is ready for dialogue after Poland\u2019s overture, security chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Rados\u0142aw Sikorski and Maksim Ry\u017eanko\u016d in New York on September 22\n <\/div>\n \n
\n (Belarusian foreign ministry)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

November 9, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Europeans are showing no willingness for engagement, although Poland made a slight attempt at dialogue within the United Nations framework, Alaksandar Valfovi\u010d, state secretary of the Security Council, said in Moscow on Monday on the sidelines of a meeting of the security council chiefs of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not seeing any more progress for now,\u201d Valfovi\u010d was quoted as saying by Belarusian state media. Belarus, for its part, is ready to engage with the West on the \u201cstabilization of the situation in the region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Minsk and Warsaw have recently signaled that they would like to improve their relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 22, Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski met Belarusian Foreign Minister Maksim Ry\u017eanko\u016d on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, reportedly at the request of the Belarusian side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both expressed satisfaction with the meeting and hope that it would pave the way for the normalization of relations between the two countries. Sikorski welcomed the fact that Belarus had released imprisoned Polish minority activist Andrej Pa\u010dobut (Andrzej Poczobut), and that violations of the Polish border by irregular migrants and cigarette smugglers had stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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