The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Belarus crisis: Poland stops border breach - Lukashenko warns of war as a "catastrophe"

2021-11-24T13:52:52.941Z


Poland's border guards prevented migrants from attempting to break through the border. Merkel will meet with the Polish head of government. The news ticker.


Poland's border guards prevented migrants from attempting to break through the border.

Merkel will meet with the Polish head of government.

The news ticker.

  • Once again, three larger groups of migrants tried in vain to cross the Polish border and get into the EU

    (first report on November 24th, 1:19 p.m.)

    .

  • In the meantime, the Belarusian ruler Lukashenko warned of war with Poland and described this as a "catastrophe".

  • Chancellor Merkel now wants to meet the Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki

    (update from November 24, 2:20 p.m.)

    .

  • This news ticker is continuously updated.

Belarus crisis: Chancellor Merkel will meet with the Polish head of government - "Germany's full solidarity"

Update from November 24th, 2:20 p.m.:

The Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) wants to discuss the situation of migrants on the Belarusian-Polish border at a meeting in Berlin with Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki this Thursday. The government spokesman Steffen Seibert announced on Wednesday in Berlin. The Federal Government is aware that Poland is "extremely challenged" by the situation on the border - as are other countries with a border with Belarus. “But Poland is hit particularly hard.” Merkel phoned Morawiecki last week to promise him “Germany's full solidarity”. This will also be the focus of the conversation on Thursday.

The federal government and the other EU member states wanted good humanitarian conditions to be created for the people along the Polish-Belarusian border, said Seibert.

In addition, there must be access for the UN refugee agency UNHCR and for the International Organization for Migration.

These should not only be able to provide acute help locally, but also help to bring people back to their home countries “in a safer way”.

Everything that happens along the border has to be in accordance with the applicable law, emphasized Seibert.


Belarus conflict: Polish border guards foiled border breakthrough - “aggressive migrants” throw stones at Polish officials

First report from November 24th, 2 p.m .:

Thousands of migrants are still at the eastern EU * external border between Poland and Belarus *. The refugees hope to be accepted into the European Union. There are also repeated attempts to breach the border, which the Polish border guards have so far been able to stop. On Tuesday evening

(23 November),

according to the Polish border guards, three large groups of migrants tried in vain to break through the border barriers from Belarus and enter the EU illegally. A soldier was injured in the head and had to be treated, a spokeswoman for the authority said on Wednesday.

In the vicinity of Dubicze Cerkiewne, a group of more than 100 people tried to penetrate into Polish territory. "These people were very aggressive, they threw stones at Polish officials, threw a boardwalk on the barbed wire barricade, migrants cut through parts of the barrier," said the spokeswoman. The group managed to get to the Polish side in the short term. But they were arrested and taken back to the border.

Two more attempted border breaches occurred near the town of Mielnik, where groups of around 30 migrants tried to cross the border in the evening and shortly before midnight.

The border guards registered a total of 267 attempts to illegally cross the border.

Since Poland does not allow journalists into the area, the information cannot be verified.


+

Thousands of migrants are currently in refugee shelters near the Polish border.

© Andrey Pokumeiko / BelTA / AP / dpa

Lukashenko: ruler says war with Poland would be a catastrophe and relies on Europe giving in - "we are not barbarians"

Meanwhile, the authoritarian Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko * warned of war with Poland. This would be a “catastrophe”, said Lukashenko: “We have to convey to the Poles, every Pole, that we are not barbarians. We don't want a confrontation, we can't need it. Because we know that if we overdo it, a war is inevitable and that would be a catastrophe. "

At the same time, Belarusian President Lukashenko is counting on Europe to give in.

He criticizes the European Union for not wanting to take in the refugees at the border.

Previously, he claimed several times that the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel had promised him that she would examine the situation at EU level.

In addition, the Belarusian leadership referred to Merkel as a “humanitarian corridor to Germany”.

This claim has been denied by the federal government.

(bb with material from dpa) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

List of rubric lists: © Nikolay Petrov / BelTA / AP / dpa

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2021-11-24

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-21T19:02:41.242Z
News/Politics 2024-03-01T15:34:47.587Z
Life/Entertain 2024-02-06T12:11:08.881Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.