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On Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday called on the president to impose a state of emergency on the Belarusian border, with dozens of migrants trying to cross the Polish border illegally every day.
“The president has decided to issue an order imposing a state of emergency in the indicated area [vyriausybės] upon request, said Blazey Spychalski, spokesman for the presidency.
He added that the order had now been submitted for publication in the Official State Gazette and had been delivered to the Marshal of Seimas. According to the Polish constitution, the introduction of the state of emergency must be approved by the parliament.
If the state of emergency is confirmed, it will run for 30 days on a 3 km wide stretch along the border with Belarus. A total of 183 settlements fall in this area.
Any mass gathering in this area would be prohibited and visitors must have identity documents.
“The situation on the border with Belarus is a constant crisis,” Morawieckis told reporters earlier this week. “So we decided to offer this solution to the president.”
Earlier, Polish Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Wasik reported that “between 100 and 250 people try to move to Polish territory every day.”
According to him, Poland has started the construction of a 2.5 m high fence in a stretch of about 180 km near the border with Belarus. The total length of the border between Poland and Belarus is 418 kilometers.
The fence is built on a stretch where illegal immigrants generally try to enter Poland. Two thousand more were also shipped. military.
Polish border guards also put up sharp wire barriers in some sections of the border in August.
Morawieckis, in turn, accused Minsk of blackmail.
Poland, Latvia and Lithuania do not allow migrants seeking asylum, and Belarusian border guards do not allow them to return to Belarus, often leading to conflict situations.
The European Union believes they are targeting migrants as Lukashenko takes revenge on the bloc’s increasingly tough sanctions against Belarus.
Poland calls it a “hybrid attack” against the entire bloc. Morawieckis said on Tuesday that Lukashenko was trying to “introduce a destabilizing element into the territory of our countries.”
A group of about 30 migrants trapped at the border, believed to be Afghans, are treated differently in Poland.
The government is on a strict line, preventing them from entering Poland and applying for asylum. However, this position is strongly criticized by the liberal opposition, non-governmental organizations and the Catholic Church.
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