Poland may stop transporting goods through Belarus – Famagusta Gazette

Poland could stop the transport of goods through Belarus if Minsk does not take measures to normalize relations between the two countries, a deputy Polish foreign minister said on Monday.

“Poland is setting concrete conditions for Belarus if it wants to normalize relations,” Andrzej Szejna, deputy foreign minister, told ZET radio. The conditions include stopping hybrid attacks, extraditing the killer of a Polish soldier and releasing imprisoned Poles.

“If these conditions are not met, we can stop the transport of goods through Belarus,” Szejna said. “This is not beneficial for us either, but we are starting to adapt to this and Belarus is realizing that we are taking this seriously,” he added.

Last month, a Polish soldier who was stabbed to death on the Polish-Belarusian border died in hospital. The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Belarusian chargé d’affaires and asked the Minsk authorities to identify and extradite the perpetrator.

Anatoly Glaz, press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, subsequently expressed his condolences to Poland over the soldier’s death, but accused Warsaw of being responsible for the strained relations between the two countries, telling the Belarusian state news agency BelTA.