Mikhail Myasnikovich, Chairman of the upper chamber of the Belarusian parliament and a former prime minister of Belarus, is set to pay a visit to the Polish village of Zaleszany on Thursday.
“It [the visit] has been agreed,” the top official told Belsat TV in Warsaw. “It is one of the items,” he added.
The topic of Zaleszany is sensitive; at the beginning of 1946, Romuald Rajs aka Bury, a member of the Polish anti-Communist movement, and his department killed 16 villagers, Polish nationals of Belarusian etnicity, and burned down the village.
Mikhail Myasnikovich is currently making a four-day visit to Poland. On February 13, the representative of the Belarusian parliament will hold talks with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. On February 14, the Belarusian official will head for the city of Białystok which is located not far the Polish-Belarusian border.
Mikhail Myasnikovich headed the presidential administration for nearly six years; he also took the positions of Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences.
