Poland’s Prime Minister will hold talks in Europe on the border crisis

Mr Moraviki said he was meeting on Sunday with his counterparts from EU members Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday he has to hold several talks in Europe about migrant pressure at the EU’s border with Belarus, a crisis he hopes will continue.

Mr Moraviki said he was meeting on Sunday with his counterparts from EU members Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which have been hit by migrant pressure in recent months, albeit to a lesser extent.

During the week he is to travel to a few other European countries, which he did not name.

Mr Morawiecki said on Facebook that this is a “very serious geopolitical situation” and requires a lot of diplomatic effort as many expatriates from the Middle East live in Belarus and EU member states are trying to make their way into Poland. continue. According to Poland’s border guard, migrants made recent attempts on Friday night with stone-throwing and using tear gas against Polish border guards and police.

“That is why I set out on a visit to some European countries to talk about the international crisis provoked by the actions of (Belarusian President) Alexander Lukashenko,” Mr. Moraviecki said.

“Unfortunately, there are many indications that this geopolitical crisis will continue for many months, even years,” Mr. Morawiecki said.

The West has accused Mr Lukashenko of using migrants as pawns to destabilize the EU in retaliation for sanctions on his authoritarian regime. Belarus denies the engineering crisis, which has seen migrants enter the country since last summer and then try to cross into Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

Poland is pushing back migrants, saying it is guarding the border across Europe. It has received words of support from the EU, NATO and the US

Many migrants have died in the moist forests along the border.

Some migrants have given up hope of reaching Europe and have been sent back to their home countries this week.

Humanitarian organizations are pushing for the possibility of providing aid to stranded migrants, and in Poland, NGOs have organized charity collections.

On Saturday, a march in support of migrants is to be held in Warsaw and the border city of Hajnovka.

Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszak said aid should be offered mainly to potential migrants in the countries where they live.

“Let’s not drag these people here, let’s help them in the places they come from,” said Mr. Blaszak.

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