"On March 9, 2021, a temporary attorney in the affairs of Poland in Belarus Martin Vojtsekhovsky was called in Belarus. During the meeting, the Polish diplomat was announced a decisive protest in connection with the participation of the Consul of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Brest Yezhi Timophyukha in an informal event dedicated to the "Day of Cursed Soldiers" held on February 28, 2021 in the city of Brest with the participation of representatives related to Poland, non-governmental and Youth organizations, "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported tonight. "The principal and consistent position of the Belarusian side in relation to the" damned soldiers "and their typical representatives -" Bang Bang "remains unchanged and has repeatedly communicated to the Polish side. It is absolutely unacceptable for us to the heroization of war criminals, the cynical justification of the genocide of the Belarusian people, gross violations of the Polish obligations to prevent the heroization of Nazism.
With its crimes in the fields of compact residence of the Belarusian National Minority "Damned Soldiers" under the command of Rymaald Rice set themselves for one level with Hitler's punishers. The memory of the burned villages, hundreds of killed and crippled peaceful citizens are sacred for our country. Both Belarus and Poland paid a colossal price for the survival of their peoples in that terrible war.
The Belarusian side does not put and never questioned the possibility and importance of the interaction of diplomats with its own diaspora. At the same time, in our country, inciting racial, national, religious or other social hostility or retail and rehabilitation of Nazism is a criminal offense. Participation in the specified event, the Polish representative rustled ruled the norms of international law, in particular the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
In this regard, the Polish side was awarded a note in which the consul of General Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Brest Jerzy Timophyuk was proposed to leave the territory of the Republic of Belarus, "the circumstances of the conflict clarify in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The day of the memory of "rejected (damned) soldiers is a national holiday in the Polish Republic, noted in honor of the participants of the anti-Soviet and anti-communist armed underground, which operated in Poland in the second half of the 1940s and in the 1950s. The holiday is celebrated annually March 1 since 2011.
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