{"id":99043,"date":"2024-08-04T19:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/99043\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"i-will-decide-my-own-fate-latuska-comments-on-proposal-to-swap-him-for-poczobut","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/99043\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I will decide my own fate.&#8221; \u0141atu\u0161ka comments on proposal to swap him for Poczobut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 4, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> &#8220;The regime must understand that I will decide my own fate. At the same time, I am grateful to the Polish government for its principled position then and now,&#8221; the leader of the Warsaw-based National Anti-Crisis Management (NAM), Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka, told <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was commenting on an interview with Mariusz Kami\u0144ski, in which the former Polish minister-special services coordinator spoke about behind-the-scenes negotiations to free Polish minority activist Andrzej Poczobut (Andrej Pa\u010dobut) in exchange for the reopening of a major Polish border crossing on the Belarusian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kami\u0144ski said the Belarusian regime also demanded the extradition of \u0141atu\u0161ka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0141uka\u0161enka had mentioned the negotiations in his state of the union speech in March 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRecently, at the level of the Polish deputy minister . . . they have offered us to exchange Pa\u010dobut for a section of the border,\u201d \u0141uka\u0161enka said. \u201cFor the Bobrowniki checkpoint. I was shocked when they told me. How can you exchange a human being for a checkpoint? But if you want a swap, let it be. If they want to exchange this Pa\u010dobut, in Poland we have \u0141achu\u0161ka.\u201d (Pejorative name for \u0141atu\u0161ka).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0141uka\u0161enka added: \u201cI will never agree to exchange Pa\u010dobut for \u0141achu\u0161ka alone.\u201d \u201cSend his entire group here, the NAM, his government. Because it was formed for Belarus . . . And I will return Pa\u010dobut to you. I don\u2019t mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, \u0141atu\u0161ka responded to \u0141uka\u0161enka by saying that he and the male members of the NAM were ready to be exchanged for all Belarusian political prisoners. &#8220;We are not indifferent to the fate of people who are suffering in Belarusian prisons today,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 4, Pozirk. &#8220;The regime must understand that I will decide my own fate. 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