Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski met with Belarusian Foreign Minister Maksim Ryzhenkov. The meeting took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
— The UN is neutral territory, — quoted Radosław Sikorski by the Polish portal Onet.pl.
In this regard, he said, it is possible to meet here even with representatives of countries with which relations are not necessarily established in other contexts.
Asked about the course of the meeting and what topics were discussed, Sikorski said that these included the situation on the border, as well as the situation with regional security.
Asked if he requested Belarus not to allow Russian drones and missiles to fly through its territory, he replied: "Among other things."
— This is the first, introductory meeting, but meetings of other departments are also taking place at other levels. We will soon open a new embassy building in Minsk. If a neighbor wants to defrost and improve relations, Poland is always the first to be ready for agreement, — said the head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
To a clarifying question whether this means that the Polish government recognizes the Lukashenka regime, Sikorski replied: "As a state, we recognize other states, not governments."
Asked whether this means a normalization of relations with Belarus, he said that "it is like a snowdrop that can bloom if the weather is favorable."
"The meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski was dedicated to assessing the state of Belarusian-Polish relations and ways for their further development in the interests of the peoples of both countries. The parties also discussed the situation in the region," the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said in turn.
One of the conditions for normalizing relations with Minsk, Warsaw named, was the release of political prisoner Andrzej Poczobut. This happened in April 2026, after five years of imprisonment. Despite his expulsion from Belarus upon release, he was able to enter Belarus in September. He was not arrested then. It should be noted that Poczobut refrained from political statements and direct contacts with the Belarusian opposition and independent media.
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