Andzelika Orechwo takes charge of Union of Poles in Belarus

• 21.06.2010, 13:20

On June 19 in Hrodna a session of the main council of the Union of Poles in Belarus took place in Hrodna.

The new chairperson of the public association was elected at the session. As said by the spokesperson of the association, Ihar Bantsar, the Union is now headed by Andzelika Orechwo (Anzalika Arechwa).

On June 12 the leader of the association Anzelika Borys stated her desire to leave the position for personal reasons.

As noted by Bantsar, Borys did not take part in the session of the main council and denied any comments on her discharge. Two deputy chairmen of the association, Meczyslaw Yaskievich and Anzelika Orechwo. Most participants of the session supported Anzelika Orechwo.

36-year-old Anzelika Orechwo works in the unofficial Union of Poles in Belarus, and notably she was a deputy head of the organization on education issues for 5 years. She graduated from Lublin university (Poland) and majored in Polish philology.

In an interview to BelaPAN Orechwo noted that the decision to be nominated for the leader of the organization was difficult for her. “However, I remember all the difficult events of the recent 5 years, which demanded enormous efforts from me for the sake of the people, who had been supporting the leadership of the organization constantly and warmly. That is why I cannot step aside,” Orechwo said. As said by her, in the first months of her activities she is set to dedicate to the issues of the organization’s work. “And problems of its legalization are to be raised no earlier than in autumn this year,” the new leader stated.