Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński said that from December 2, a three-month ban on the stay of outsiders in the area bordering Belarus will come into force.
“From tomorrow, three decrees concerning the protection of the eastern border will come into force. The most important of these is the ban on staying in an area that was still under state of emergency. We are introducing the rules for three months, ”he said in Twitter Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński.
The ban applies to 183 settlements located on the border with Belarus at a distance of 3 km from it. The ban is valid from December 1, 2021 to March 1, 2022. It does not apply to local residents, administration workers, churches, hospitals and emergency services, duty officers and soldiers. At the discretion of the border guard, journalists may be allowed into the special zone.
The decision was made on the basis of new amendments to the law “On the Protection of the State Border”, which were approved by the Parliament and the President of Poland on November 30.
Earlier, Polish President Andrzej Duda, in connection with the increased influx of illegal migrants from September 2, declared a state of emergency in the border zone with Belarus.
The emergency zone included 183 settlements in the Podlaskie and Lubelskie Voivodeships. The regime was introduced for 30 days, and then extended for another 60 days, the portal writes. pl.sputniknews. The last renewal will end on December 2.
On November 30, spokeswoman for the Polish border guard Anna Michalskaya said that Poland does not plan to resume the work of the road border crossing at Kuznica on the border with Belarus in the near future.
In early November, the situation with migrants worsened on the border between Poland and Belarus. A large group of refugees in Belarus came to the border in a forest belt. Migrants cut barbed wire at the border of the two countries and asked to be allowed into the territory of the European Union. In Poland, they announced a tough attack on the border for the first time in 30 years. European countries blame Minsk for the migration crisis, which denies any involvement in the increase in the flow of refugees.
At the moment, the migrants left the tent camps at the border and went to the logistics center, which was provided by the Belarusian side.
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