{"id":45422,"date":"2023-01-20T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T17:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/cichanouskaja-asks-irish-premier-to-give-belarusians-visa-free-travel-option\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"cichanouskaja-asks-irish-premier-to-give-belarusians-visa-free-travel-option","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45422\/","title":{"rendered":"Cichano\u016dskaja asks Irish premier to give Belarusians visa-free travel option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>January 20, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja has asked Irish premier Leo Varadkar to allow Belarusians to enter Ireland with UK visas. Cichano\u016dskaja\u2019s office reports that they met at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20. Ireland removed Belarusians from its visa waiver program after Russia had invaded Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p> Cichano\u016dskaja \u201cthanked Leo Varadkar for support of Belarusian human rights defenders and media,\u201d particularly for financial aid to \u201ca major Belarusian newsroom and an international platform for collecting evidence of Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The politicians discussed \u201cthe possibility of supporting Belarusian cultural initiatives, including those aimed at expanding the Belarusian language,\u201d and the prospects of joint Belarusian-Irish projects.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cCichano\u016dskaja thanked him for the work of the Irish ambassador to Lithuania and Belarus and for the Irish Embassy\u2019s active cooperation with the Belarusian democratic forces. She noted that many Irish MPs, including those from the premier\u2019s party, became Belarusian political prisoners\u2019 guardians. She called for a more active discussion on Belarusian reprisals and political prisoners and for efforts to free them,\u201d the office said.<\/p>\n<p>Varadkar invited Cichano\u016dskaja to visit Ireland, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, BPN. Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja has asked Irish premier Leo Varadkar to allow Belarusians to enter Ireland with UK visas. Cichano\u016dskaja\u2019s office reports that they met at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20. Ireland removed Belarusians from its visa waiver program after Russia had invaded Ukraine. Cichano\u016dskaja \u201cthanked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45422","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>Cichano\u016dskaja asks Irish premier to give Belarusians visa-free travel option | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 20, BPN. 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