In fact, two delegations from Belarus attended the international meeting in Lodz, Poland - one from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the other from the opposition United Transitional Cabinet.

The Belarusian authorities were represented at the OSCE summit in Lodz by

, Ambassador of Belarus to Austria, Permanent Representative of Belarus to the OSCE.

Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs

was invited to the summit , but he died shortly before the summit.

AFP photographers managed to capture the moment when

was next to Dapkyunas and bent down to say something to him.

Nothing more is known about the meetings of the "official" and "opposition" delegations in Lodz.

, was one of those who looked at Tikhanovskaya and Dapkyunas with a smile

.

The organizers refused to invite Russian Foreign Minister

to the summit in Lodz as a representative of the aggressor country in the war with Ukraine.

The deceased Makei was going to be outraged by his absence, whose speech was read by the representatives of the official delegation.

In her speech, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya spoke about the deterioration of the human rights situation in Belarus and called on the OSCE to continue and increase pressure on the regime of

in order to release all political prisoners.

"It is especially important for every person who opposes tyranny in Belarus to be at least visible and heard.

It is important that the OSCE monitors the situation in Belarus, does not remove it from the agenda and demonstrates solidarity with the struggle of our people, - Tsikhanovskaya said at the beginning of her speech.

— I am sure that the OSCE has tools to influence the situation.

And I'm asking you: don't wait for another victim, don't wait for another death, you need to act now."

Speaking about political prisoners in Belarus, Tsikhanovskaya mentioned

by name .