MFA issues official note to Poland over attempt to recruit Belarusian diplomat in Moldova

The MFA of Belarus has issued an official note to Poland's Chargé d'Affaires in Belarus Krzysztof Ozhanna, BELTA reports.

As it was reported earlier, Polish special services attempted to recruit a Belarusian diplomat in Moldova for 100,000 euros. Press Secretary of the MFA of Belarus Anatoly Glaz stressed that this is an outrageous incident from the point of view of both domestic and international law. "A number of domestic laws were violated. A number of international rules were violated. The norms of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic and Consular Relations were directly violated. An attempt to put pressure on or recruit a diplomat, believe me, is so brazen and open, even beyond the bounds of the law, the rules of decency of normal civilized interstate communication. This cannot go unanswered. We have already prepared the corresponding note to the Polish side. I believe that a number of other steps will follow, which we are thinking about most seriously. All responsibility for the consequences of such actions lies with the Polish side," noted Anatoly Glaz.

On December 11, the Chargé d'Affaires of Poland in Belarus, Krzysztof Ozhanna, was summoned to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. The Polish diplomat was handed an official note. "I will convey what we discussed today to Warsaw," Krzysztof Ozhannasaid in response to journalists' questions. The diplomat declined to comment further.