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To block the entry of immigrants: Poland will erect a fence on the border with Belarus

The defense minister said that about a thousand more soldiers would be sent to the border, after there has recently been an increase in the number of immigrants trying to cross into state territory.

The EU accuses Lukashenko of encouraging immigration as revenge for sanctions.

"These are not refugees but economic immigrants brought by the Belarusian government"

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Reuters

Tuesday, 24 August 2021, 14:22

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Poland will build a fence along the border with Belarus and double the number of troops deployed there - the Minister of Defense announced yesterday (Monday). According to Mariusz Blaszczak, the thickened fence will be two and a half meters high. "It is necessary to increase the number of soldiers, and soon we will double their number to 2,000," the defense minister said at a press conference at the border.

Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, all part of the European Union, have reported a sharp rise in the number of migrants from countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan trying to cross into their territory from Belarus, which is not a member of the bloc. The union accuses Minsk of encouraging the arrival of immigrants to its member states, in retaliation for the sanctions imposed by the bloc on the regime of Alexander Lukashenko waging a "hybrid war" against him.

The Polish government has come under heavy criticism from human rights activists over the situation of a group of immigrants who were stuck for two weeks in an open area between members of the Polish Border Police and the Belarusian Border Guard near the town of Osnars Gorny.

Warsaw claims that bringing immigrants into the country will encourage further illegal immigration and will also play into Lukashenko's hands.

"They are not refugees, but economic migrants brought in by the Belarusian government," said Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydic.

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