{"id":70148,"date":"2024-02-28T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/70148\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"foreign-ministry-denies-minsks-role-in-illegal-migration-crisis","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/70148\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign ministry denies Minsk\u2019s role in illegal migration crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/migrants_744x496.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/migrants_744x496.jpg 744w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/migrants_744x496-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n      <div class=\"block-image__descr\">\n\n        Migrants marching toward Polish border in 2021\n    <\/div>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Belarusian State Border Committee)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 28, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Belarus and the European Union have many &#8220;overlapping interests,&#8221; including the protection of shared borders with Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the foreign ministry has said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry accused Brussels of issuing &#8220;false statements&#8221; about a &#8220;hybrid attack by [third-country] migrants from Belarus.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The illegal migrant flow into the EU along the eastern route, excluding Ukraine, fell by about 30 percent since 2019 and accounted for 0.3 percent of total illegal migration to the EU, it said, citing the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The results could have been even more impressive if, in addition to the efforts by Belarusian law enforcement agencies, the authorities of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia had fulfilled their international obligations for bilateral cooperation at the state border, which they have unilaterally abandoned,&#8221; the ministry charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. It escalated in November 2021, with hundreds of migrants storming the Polish border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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>In August 2023, the interior ministers of Poland and the Baltic States warned that they would close the border with Belarus in case of a surge in illegal migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pozirk<\/em>\u2019s analysis of daily stats indicated fluctuated tension at the Belarusian-EU border throughout 2023 with a significant decrease by the end of the year and in early 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of 2024, the EU thwarted 464 illegal border crossings on its shared border with Belarus, with 288 attempts via Poland, 53 via Latvia and 27 via Lithuania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 28, Pozirk. Belarus and the European Union have many &#8220;overlapping interests,&#8221; including the protection of shared borders with Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the foreign ministry has said in a statement. The ministry accused Brussels of issuing &#8220;false statements&#8221; about a &#8220;hybrid attack by [third-country] migrants from Belarus.&#8221; The illegal migrant flow into the EU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":60185,"template":"","rubric":[30],"class_list":["post-70148","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","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>Foreign ministry denies Minsk\u2019s role in illegal migration crisis | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 28, Pozirk. 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