{"id":2938,"date":"2023-09-25T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=2938"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"estonia-helping-latvia-to-ward-off-illegal-border-crossings-from-belarus-interior-minister","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/2938\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia helping Latvia to ward off illegal border crossings from Belarus \u2013 interior minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 25,\u00a0<em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0Estonia&#8217;s border guards assist their Latvian colleagues in protecting the border with Belarus to prevent illegal border crossings, Estonian Interior Minister Lauri L\u00e4\u00e4nemets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1609111097\/events-on-latvia-belarus-border-so-far-not-felt-in-estonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">told<\/a>\u00a0<em>ETV<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some illegal migrants head for Estonia via Latvia but Tallinn is not currently affected by illegal migration in the same way as Latvia, he said, noting that migrants are used by Belarusian authorities as a weapon to undermine security at the Belarusian-Latvian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border dates back to the spring of 2021. It escalated in November 2021, with thousands of migrants setting up a camp near the Polish border. The Baltic states and Poland accused Belarusian authorities of creating the trouble, while the latter blamed it on the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of 2023, the EU has recorded over 32,000 attempts by illegal migrants to enter its territory from Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 28, interior ministers of Poland and the Baltic States agreed to close their borders with Belarus in case of a surge in illegal migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks later, Latvia closed the Silene border checkpoint until further notice, citing a surge in illegal migration from Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 25,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0Estonia&#8217;s border guards assist their Latvian colleagues in protecting the border with Belarus to prevent illegal border crossings, Estonian Interior Minister Lauri L\u00e4\u00e4nemets\u00a0told\u00a0ETV. Some illegal migrants head for Estonia via Latvia but Tallinn is not currently affected by illegal migration in the same way as Latvia, he said, noting that migrants are used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[30],"class_list":["post-2938","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Estonia helping Latvia to ward off illegal border crossings from Belarus \u2013 interior minister | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 25,\u00a0Pozirk.\u00a0Estonia&#039;s border guards assist their Latvian colleagues in protecting the border with Belarus to prevent illegal border crossings,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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