No intention to close down Belsat TV – Poland’s Senate Speaker


Poland has no intention to stop Belsat TV broadcasting and supporting Belarus’s civil society in return for the improvement of relations with Minsk, Polish Senate Speaker Stanislaw Karczewski said after a meeting with representatives of the Belarusian opposition parties and movements.

The meeting was attended by members of the movement For Freedom, HRC Viasna, the Belarusian People’s Front and the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, as well as the first leader of independent Belarus Stanislau Shushkevich and MP Alena Anisim.

“There was no trade with the Belarusian government. Civil society representatives expressed concerns about the possible closure of Belsat, we have dispelled them,” Stanislaw Karczewski said.

Earlier, one of Polish media outlets reported with no reference to any source that the Belarusian authorities might okay Polish TV channels broadcasting via cable network on condition that Poland cut Belsat TV air time.

The delegation of the upper chamber of the Polish parliament was on a visit to Belarus on December 5-6. Its head Stanislaw Karczewski, Poland’s Senate Speaker, discussed a nember of hot-button issues with Belarus president Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Chairman of the Council of the Republic Mikhail Myasnikovich and Chairman of the House of Representatives Uladzimir Andreychanka. The delegation also visited Philology Faculty of the Belarusian State University, Children’s Cancer Hospital in Baraulyany and laid a wreath at the burial site of the victims of Stalin’s repressions in Kurapaty. They also met with representatives of the Polish minority in Belarus.

More information about the Polish delegation in videos:

Bеlsat.eu, following radyjo.net

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