Polish premier suggests blocking flights from Middle Eastern countries to Belarus
<p> MINSK, Nov 10 - PrimePress. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki suggests blocking flights from Middle Eastern countries to Belarus, PRIME reports. </p> <p> </p> <p> “We should talk about blocking flights from the Middle East to Belarus,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said after a meeting with President of the European Council Charles Michel in Warsaw on Wednesday. </p> <p> </p> <p> The migration crisis on Belarus’ border with Latvia, Lithuania and Poland deteriorated dramatically on November 8, when several thousand people in organized groups escorted by Belarusian law enforcers approached the Polish border from the Belarusian side near the Bruzgi-Kuznica Bialostocka border checkpoint and are not leaving the border zone. Some of them have tried to cross into Poland by cutting razor wire fences. The Polish side estimated their number to be three to four thousand. They tried unsuccessfully several times to break through the border fences. Poland has completely closed the border checkpoint for an indefinite period. </p> <p> </p> <p> In July 2021, President Lukashenko stated that, due to sanctions imposed by Western countries, he no longer intended to restrain illegal migration to the European Union. This was followed by attempts to illegally cross the border with Lithuania, Poland and Latvia by migrants from the Middle East, with total inactivity of the Belarusian border service. By 1 November, the Polish border guards alone registered 23 thousand such attempts. End </p>
2021-11-11
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Polish premier suggests blocking flights from Middle Eastern countries to Belarus
MINSK, Nov 10 - PrimePress. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki suggests blocking flights from Middle Eastern countries to Belarus, PRIME reports.
“We should talk about blocking flights from the Middle East to Belarus,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said after a meeting with President of the European Council Charles Michel in Warsaw on Wednesday.
The migration crisis on Belarus’ border with Latvia, Lithuania and Poland deteriorated dramatically on November 8, when several thousand people in organized groups escorted by Belarusian law enforcers approached the Polish border from the Belarusian side near the Bruzgi-Kuznica Bialostocka border checkpoint and are not leaving the border zone. Some of them have tried to cross into Poland by cutting razor wire fences. The Polish side estimated their number to be three to four thousand. They tried unsuccessfully several times to break through the border fences. Poland has completely closed the border checkpoint for an indefinite period.
In July 2021, President Lukashenko stated that, due to sanctions imposed by Western countries, he no longer intended to restrain illegal migration to the European Union. This was followed by attempts to illegally cross the border with Lithuania, Poland and Latvia by migrants from the Middle East, with total inactivity of the Belarusian border service. By 1 November, the Polish border guards alone registered 23 thousand such attempts. End