Belarus expels Jerzy Timofeiuk, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Brest, from the country for participating in an informal event. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, which appeared on the website of the Ministry on Tuesday, March 9.
Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – March 10, 2021 – International News
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry was outraged that, according to him, Timofeyuk took part in an informal event on February 28 in Brest dedicated to the “Day of the Damned Soldiers” – members of the anti-communist underground in Poland during and after World War II.
“The heroization of war criminals, the cynical justification of the genocide of the Belarusian people, and gross violations of the Polish side’s obligations to prevent the glorification of Nazism is absolutely unacceptable to us,” the Belarusian ministry said in a statement.
Due to Timofeyuk’s actions, the Chargé d’Affaires of Poland in Belarus, Martin Wojciechowski, was also summoned to the Foreign Ministry of Belarus and strongly protested.
In particular, the Foreign Ministry reminded of the crimes of the “cursed soldiers” under the command of Romuald Rice, whose detachment killed several dozen Orthodox peasants in eastern Poland.
In March 2019, a diplomatic scandal broke out between Rice’s detachment between Poland and Belarus: after the Polish Institute of National Remembrance published a study according to which Rice did not act with the intention of destroying the Belarusian community, he was summoned to the Belarusian Ministry for explanations. Polish Ambassador Arthur Michalsky.
Source: Ukrgate