Poland does not consider people who have arrived in Belarus from the Middle East, who have arrived at the border between the two countries, and these migrants will not be allowed into Poland under any pretext, Lukash Jasina, a spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry, told Russian radio station Echo Moscow on Thursday.
In order to receive refugee status, migrants must come to Poland directly from the crisis region, the official explained.
“The problem is that they all came to Belarus legally, received tourist visas under Belarusian law, which means they are going to the European Union (EU) from a safe country,” said Yassin. “If they come from an unsafe country, they could get it [bēgļa statusa] legal document. “
The law does not stipulate that “tourists cross the border illegally and receive refugee status,” a spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry said.
In the past months, efforts have been made in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to send thousands of illegal immigrants from Belarus, most of them arriving in Belarus as tourists from Iraq, as part of an extensive hybrid attack on Belarus’s dictator Lukashenko.
The EU has accused the Minsk regime of seeking to avenge support for the Belarusian opposition and of sanctions against Belarus in response to last year’s violent crackdown on protests.
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