{"id":79323,"date":"2024-04-12T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/79323\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"polands-tusk-accuses-lukasenka-of-exploiting-migration-crisis","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/79323\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s Tusk accuses \u0141uka\u0161enka of exploiting migration crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Prime Minister Tusk shaking hands with European Council President Charles Michel on April 11\n <\/div>\n \n
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April 12, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Poland sees more indications that Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka wants to use migration and tension at shared border for his political ends again, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told his Estonian counterpart Kaja Kallas, his press office reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their Warsaw meeting on April 11 took place on the sidelines of the ongoing European Union\u2019s consultations on policy priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tusk stressed that he would urge all of Poland’s European partners to prioritize issues of illegal migration to make the EU tighten border security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement came the day after border guards and soldiers in Poland\u2019s Podlaskie region stopped a group of more than 220 migrants coming from Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka on April 11 complained to Russian President Vladimir Putin about tension at the border with Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd Lithuanians, Latvians. . . . First, they throw tens of dead bodies across the border. A certain number of migrants is going there; and they push them back. They have built the fence. So, they throw them over the fence to us at the border. As snow melted, dead bodies became exposed right there at the border,\u201d his press office quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border started in spring 2021 after \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

It escalated in November 2021, with hundreds of migrants storming the Polish border.<\/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 in an operation by Belarusian security services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pozirk<\/em>\u2019s analysis of daily stats indicated fluctuated tension at the Belarusian-EU border throughout 2023 with illegal border crossings picking up the pace in February and Poland being the major target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

In August 2023, the interior ministers of Poland and the Baltic States warned that they might close the border with Belarus in response to a surge in illegal migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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