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UN urges Poland to take in migrants stuck on Belarus border |
2021-08-25 |
[AlAhram] The UN refugee agency on Tuesday urged Poland to take in a group of Thousands of Build a wall.... Brussels believes the influx is being deliberately engineered by the regime in Minsk in retaliation against EU sanctions -- an accusation that Belarus denies -- and Poland has called it a "hybrid attack" on the bloc. Poland has said it will not allow the Morawiecki insisted on Tuesday that the "If someone on the Belarusian side wants to apply for refugee status, please do so in Minsk," he added. Around 30 "We call on the Polish authorities to provide access to territory, immediate medical assistance, legal advice and psychological support to these people," Christine Goyer, UNHCR representative in Poland, said in a statement. "According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, to which Poland is signatory, people seeking asylum should never be penalised, even for irregular border crossing," Goyer said. The UNHCR said it was "concerned by the alarming reports regarding a group of several dozens of people" at the border, adding that they were believed to be from Afghanistan and Iraq and may require medical attention and international protection. The Polish government has announced its intention to build a 2.5-metre (8-feet) high barbed wire fence along a third of its border to prevent further arrivals, with work to begin in the next few days. "States have the legitimate right to manage their borders in accordance with international law, however, they must also respect human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... , including the right to seek asylum," the UNHCR statement said. |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#4 By moonlight the shtetl shone palely. Grey rags on a clothesline swung gaily. A rooftop, a fiddle. A kitchen, a kettle, A note: "Mazel tov! -- an Israeli ;-)" |
Posted by: Flains Flinter9060 2021-08-25 15:55 |
#3 Belarus allowed them in. That's their forever home. |
Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426 2021-08-25 09:49 |
#2 The Poles make sausage really well... |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-25 08:44 |
#1 Just say "nie" to invaders. |
Posted by: Too Old To Work 2021-08-25 08:10 |