During the joint Foreign Affairs and State Control Committee on 24 January, MPs reminded a delegation of the Supreme Audit Office, including Chairman Banasi, that nine people in Belarus had been murdered for taking part in demonstrations against the rigged elections. 275 civic organizations have been liquidated, including a number of Polish ones, almost a thousand people have the status of political prisoners in Belarus, 1435 people are facing politically motivated criminal cases. Activists of the Union of Poles in Belarus are imprisoned. The Belarusian State Control Commission, at the invitation of which the NIK delegation went to Belarus, is not a counterpart of our Chamber. It reports directly to A. Lukashenka. It has investigative and operational powers. This institution is used to fight against the opposition, including the Polish minority.

In this context, this visit is very bad for our relations with the opposition and for the image of the Polish state. At a time when there is a war on the Polish-Belarusian border, such actions are particularly incomprehensible.

The head of the Minsk delegation assured that the talks concerned the Białowieża Forest and that no state secrets had been passed to the Belarusian side. On 17 December, the joint committees on foreign affairs and state control adopted a position stating that the NIK delegation should immediately return from Minsk to the country. On 24 January, NIK representatives answered questions from the Speaker of the Sejm about the trip.