Alexei Bukchin. The political Delegation of the European Union will visit Belarus this week, reported on the first day of the week in the message of the EU delegation in Minsk. "The delegation of the European external action service (EEAS) and Directorate General of the European Commission (EC) for neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations (DG NEAR) will visit Minsk on a working visit on December 9-10. The delegation was headed by Gunnar Wiegand, the Deputy managing Director on Europe and Central Asia, and Katherine Mathernova, Deputy General Director Directorate General for neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations ", - is informed in the report of the EU mission. the delegation also included the Commissioner of the EC Directorate General for trade (DG Trade). The delegation will meet with the authorized Belarusian authorities, civil society, opposition parties, and also with heads of missions of EU countries and representatives of international organizations, to assess the relationship between the EU and Belarus and discuss further steps. special program from 7 to 9 December in Minsk will work, the Delegation, which task is to prepare the Annual action programmes of the EU for Belarus, that is, the program of cooperation with Belarus with the financial support of the EU in 2016. The delegation is headed by the head of Department of Eastern neighbourhood the EC Directorate General for neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations Mathieu Bousquet. The Belarusian authorities many times noted some warming in relations between Minsk and Brussels in the last period of time, as well as among them on the background of the role of Belarus in the conflict settlement in the South-East of Ukraine. The parties are meeting to improve relations. In the last month of summer Lukashenka adopted the opinion on the pardon and release from prison of the ex-presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich, as well as five other convicts, which European officials considered political prisoners. In October the European Union at the time stopped before the end of February 2016 penalties against Lukashenko and 170 Residents of the Republic. The European Union alleging human rights violations in Belarus in 2012 it expanded introduced at the beginning of the 2010 winter punishment on the country, for example, limiting the entry of Belarusian bureaucrats on the platform of the European Union, and made it a condition of improving relations, the release of all " political prisoners ". Minsk claims that political prisoners in the country.