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Noting that only three percent of Belarusians&#8217; applications for political asylum are granted, she suggested creating a working group on migration with the participation of Swedish Belarusians, Via\u010dorka said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t As a part of her visit, Cichano\u016dskaja met with Belarusians, as well as experts at an event hosted by the Stockholm Free World Forum. She also paid tribute to Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, BPN. Support for Belarus will be a priority for Sweden as it takes over the presidency of the European Council in January 2023, Tobias Billstr\u00f6m, the Swedish foreign minister, told Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Cichano\u016dskaja at their December 5 meeting. Cichano\u016dskaja urged Sweden to unfreeze aid to Belarus, reduced after 2020, and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44784","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Swedish foreign minister to prioritize support for Belarus during EU presidency in 2023 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 6, BPN. 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