{"id":204999,"date":"2026-09-24T11:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/204999\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:54:57","slug":"irregular-belarus-poland-crossings-halt-amid-minsk-warsaw-contacts","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/204999\/","title":{"rendered":"Irregular Belarus-Poland crossings halt amid Minsk-Warsaw contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

September 24, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Poland has not recorded any attempts at irregular border crossings by undocumented third-country foreigners via Belarus since September 16, according to Pozirk<\/em>\u2019s analysis of border guards\u2019 data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The halt coincided with public interactions between Minsk and Warsaw at the foreign minister level in New York, where the United Nations General Assembly is taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski said his meeting with Belarusian counterpart Maksim Ry\u017eanko\u016d in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly could mark a new phase in Polish-Belarusian relations. Sikorski pointed to improvements along the shared border after nearly a decade without contacts at the ministerial level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warsaw has reported at least 85 irregular crossings via Belarus since the start of September, which exceed the total number of attempts in August, when 54 crossings were recorded. However, except in January and February, migrant activity at the Polish border this year has been significantly lower than at the Lithuanian and Latvian borders. Poland has thwarted 474 attempts this year; Lithuania, 1,578 attempts; and Latvia, 11,359 attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flow of people desperate to cross into the EU surged in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent asylum seekers from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 2021, the Belarusian government suspended a readmission agreement with the EU in response to sanctions that followed the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvia, Lithuania and Poland call the migration crisis a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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