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What did Minsk and Warsaw push before 17 September 2023?
Summary
Two proposals made in the days before 17 September 2023 pointed to hardening positions around the war in Ukraine.
What were the region's leaders arguing for in the days leading up to 17 September 2023? Two reports from that period offer a snapshot.
On 15 September 2023, Belarus's president, Alexander Lukashenko, proposed a three-way alliance between Belarus, Russia and North Korea. He raised the idea during a meeting in Sochi, Russia, with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The reports on the meeting set out the proposal itself.
Two days earlier, on 13 September 2023, Poland's Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, called on the European Union to extend an embargo on imports of Ukrainian corn, wheat, sunflower and rapeseed.
The two items came from different capitals and concerned different questions. One was a proposal for an alliance linking Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. The other was a call from a neighbouring EU country for continued limits on Ukrainian agricultural imports. Both were made in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
