{"id":104048,"date":"2024-09-08T21:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/104048\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"opposition-group-lobbies-warsaw-for-sanctions-against-minsk-officials","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/104048\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition group lobbies Warsaw for sanctions against Minsk officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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September 8, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The National Anti-Crisis Management (NAM) has collected information on Belarusian senior border officials involved in the illegal migration crisis at the Belarusian-Polish border and shared it with the Polish interior ministry, its press office reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NAM campaigns for new personal sanctions against 20 officials who report personally to Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and 26 propaganda workers who support the \u201chybryd attack,\u201d it noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NAM has already been successful in lobbying for personal sanctions against Belarusian officials who facilitate illegal migration, the group added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Polish Border Guard reported 485 border violations for the first five days of September, almost 44 percent more than in the same period last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of 2024, the EU thwarted at least 28,991 illegal border crossings on its shared border with Belarus, with 84 percent of attempts via Poland, 14 percent via Latvia and 2 percent via Lithuania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border started in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent migrants from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 2021, the Belarusian government announced the suspension of a readmission agreement with the EU in response to sanctions that followed the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus\u2019 western neighbors call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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