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Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó wrote a letter to Vladimir Makej, Foreign Minister of Belarus, on behalf of the Catholic Archbishop of Minsk, Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who was not allowed to return to his homeland from Poland on August 31.
The minister, writes the MTI, posted his letter on Facebook on Sunday morning. “Given our friendship, I feel that I can write a letter to my fellow Foreign Minister with a calm heart, especially if it is not the slander but the protection and importance of Christian values that the world needs now more than ever. . So, due to our friendship, I feel free to turn to my colleague, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, asking him to consider allowing the Archbishop of Minsk to return to the country, ”the message said.
In a letter posted in English on Facebook, the minister reminded his Belarusian counterpart that Hungary was interested in maintaining good relations with Belarus in the political, economic, cultural and even religious fields, and informed him: through his personal relationship with the Archbishop, you firmly believe that Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz sincerely seeks a peaceful solution without ulterior political motives.
In Belarus, protests have continued since the presidential elections on August 9, and protesters demand the departure of the head of state, Alexander Lukashenko, accused of electoral fraud. His series of demonstrations has been going on for several weeks now, the army wants to drown him in blood. So far, 6,700 people have been arrested and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is still aware of four deaths in police violence.
Péter Szijjártó, during the peak of protests in Belarus so far, on August 12 and 16, took time to vacation in the Adriatic. The billionaire businessman close to NER, the luxury yacht Lady MRD, owned by László Szijj, was a guest as he posted Facebook posts that seemed to work in his office.
The Catholic Church defended the protesters, but other denominations also called for non-violence and national dialogue. About 10 to 15 percent of the 9.5 million in Belarus are Roman Catholic. An important part of them, like the archbishop, belong to the Polish minority. Most Christians are believers in the Orthodox Church.
Alexander Lukashenko accused the Catholic Church this week of supporting the opposition in anti-government protests. He said that Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who was returning from Poland, was not allowed to enter the country because he thought the church leader would have returned from there with a “specific mission.”
Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of the Bialists in Poland told the Spanish news agency EFE by phone that he had traveled to Poland for Mass and had not met with leaders there.
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