The Polish authorities are contemplating the potential for closing the final two functioning border factors on the border with Belarus. This was introduced on Saturday by Polish Overseas Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, quoted by TVN24.
“In reference to the actions of Belarus, we’re contemplating the closure of all border factors, for now we’re finding out whether or not it will have an effect on the Polish economic system,” the minister stated.
He additionally emphasised that what is occurring on the jap border is at present a completely managed operation by the Russian and Belarusian providers. What is especially surprising is that individuals are being instructed by Belarusian state officers easy methods to hit a Polish soldier, a Polish border guard. That is fully unacceptable, he stated.
He recalled that Finland has already closed its border crossings with Russia.
We remind you that earlier in June it grew to become clear that the army models of the Polish gendarmerie will help the nation’s military in patrolling the border with Belarus.
The pinnacle of the gendarmerie proposed this choice to Poland’s protection minister, Władysław Kosyniak Kamisz, following the dying of a soldier who was stabbed whereas guarding the border. Sikorsky, made a powerful request to the Belarusian authorities to establish and extradite the particular person accountable for the homicide.
The Belarusian chargé d’affaires on the Ministry of Overseas Affairs was handed an official word of protest.
Late final month, a soldier from the first Polish Armored Brigade was stabbed by migrants making an attempt to cross the Polish-Belarusian border fence. The army stated the serviceman, recognized solely as Mateusz, died in hospital on Thursday.
Belarus has stated it’s prepared for a unilateral or bilateral investigation into the dying of the Polish soldier, however on the situation that Warsaw supplies “particular details about the circumstances”.
There are six checkpoints on the Polish-Belarusian border. On the initiative of the Polish facet, 4 aren’t functioning, and on the fifth, restrictions have been launched for Belarusian vehicles.
In the intervening time, the motion of vehicles by means of the Terespol – Brest border crossing is feasible in regular mode.
Warsaw repeatedly blames Minsk for the migrant push of residents from the Center East and Africa to the border. In accordance with the Polish border service, for the reason that starting of the 12 months, greater than 19 thousand makes an attempt to enter the nation illegally from Belarus have been registered.
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