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title="Belarus">Belarus</a>; <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Caused by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"> <ul><li>Deterioration in <a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Belarus–European Union relations">Belarus–EU relations</a> following the <a href="/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2020 Belarusian presidential election">2020 Belarusian election</a> and <a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Belarusian_protests" title="2020–2021 Belarusian protests">2020–2021 protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanctions_against_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctions against Belarus">Sanctions against Belarus</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978" title="Ryanair Flight 4978">Ryanair Flight 4978</a> incident</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarus_2020_Summer_Olympics_scandal" title="Belarus 2020 Summer Olympics scandal">Forced repatriation</a> of sprinter <a href="/wiki/Krystsina_Tsimanouskaya" title="Krystsina Tsimanouskaya">Krystsina Tsimanouskaya</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Resulted in</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Poland_border_barrier" title="Belarus–Poland border barrier">Belarus–Poland border barrier</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Lithuania_border#Border_barrier" title="Belarus–Lithuania border">Belarus–Lithuania border barrier</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#CEE0F2;">Parties</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><table style="width:100%; border-spacing:0; margin:0; text-align:left; display:inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%;"><div> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/46px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a> </p> <hr /> <p><b>Supported by:</b><br /> </p> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> about 50 migrants dead, 217 missing<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In August 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Belarus" title="Government of Belarus">government of Belarus</a> began coordinating an influx of migrants, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa, to the borders of <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a>. Although Belarus denied involvement, both the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> and independent observers viewed it as <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_warfare" title="Hybrid warfare">hybrid warfare</a> undertaken in response to the deterioration in <a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Belarus–European Union relations">Belarus–European Union relations</a> following the <a href="/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2020 Belarusian presidential election">2020 Belarusian presidential election</a> and the <a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Belarusian_protests" title="2020–2021 Belarusian protests">2020–2021 Belarusian protests</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Between August and December 2021, tens of thousands of unauthorized border crossing attempts were recorded, peaking in October.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lt-migrants-stats_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-migrants-stats-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At least 20 migrants died in the following winter <span class="failed-verification-content" style="padding-left:0.1em; padding-right:0.1em; color:var(--color-subtle, #54595d); border:1px solid var(--border-color-subtle, #c8ccd1);">due to the actions of Poland</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material highlighted is not verifiable using the citation(s) presented. (October 2024)">failed verification</span></a></i>&#93;</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="Who says this? (October 2024)">weasel&#160;words</span></a></i>&#93;</sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Attempted border crossings fell sharply the following year, but never returned to their pre-crisis levels.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lt-migrants-stats_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-migrants-stats-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the spring of 2024, numbers began rising again, although they remain well below those seen in the peak of the crisis in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The crisis began sometime around 7 July 2021, when Belarus's president <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko" title="Alexander Lukashenko">Alexander Lukashenko</a> threatened to "flood" the EU with "<a href="/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade" title="Illegal drug trade">drugs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Refugees_as_weapons" title="Refugees as weapons">migrants</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Belarusian authorities and state-controlled travel agencies, together with some airlines operating in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, started advertising <a href="/wiki/Tourism" title="Tourism">tours</a> to Belarus and falsely promoting opportunities of easy entry into the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>. Those who arrived in Belarus, most of whom were trying to reach Germany, were then given instructions about how and where to cross the <a href="/wiki/External_border_of_the_European_Union" title="External border of the European Union">EU's border</a>, and what to tell the border guards on the other side of it. Migrants said that Belarus provided them with wire cutters and axes to cut through border barriers and enter the EU.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, those who did not manage to cross were often forced to stay on the border by Belarusian authorities, who were accused of assaulting migrants who failed to get across. Belarus has repeatedly refused entry to Polish convoys carrying humanitarian aid for migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia each declared states of emergency and announced their intentions to build border walls.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The EU sent supporting officers and patrol cars to Lithuania,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and 12 EU governments stated their support for a physical barrier along the border.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the EU refused to finance protective structures on the external borders, Poland and Lithuania completed their barriers on the border with Belarus on their own.<sup id="cite_ref-lt-completes-barrier_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-completes-barrier-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lt-barrier-surveilance_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-barrier-surveilance-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> accused Belarusian authorities of manufacturing the crisis and state-level mass exploitation of migrants, making Belarusian border guards responsible for violence, inhuman and degrading treatment and use of coercion against migrants. Other <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_organizations" class="mw-redirect" title="Human rights organizations">human rights organizations</a> and academics<sup id="cite_ref-:10_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> voiced concerns over the use of <a href="/wiki/Pushback_(migration)" title="Pushback (migration)">migrant pushbacks</a> by Lithuanian, Latvian and Polish border guards, the denial of the possibility to lodge an <a href="/wiki/Asylum_claim" class="mw-redirect" title="Asylum claim">asylum claim</a>, as well as inadequate food, water, and shelter for the migrants, the latter of which was a subject of a <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a> (ECHR) order.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Polish officials have additionally been criticised<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> for not allowing journalists, doctors, and <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">non-governmental organizations</a> to the border. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2020 Belarusian presidential election">2020 Belarusian presidential election</a>, <a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Belarusian_protests" title="2020–2021 Belarusian protests">2020–2021 Belarusian protests</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978" title="Ryanair Flight 4978">Ryanair Flight 4978</a></div> <p>In 2020, Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since July 1994, claimed victory in that year's <a href="/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2020 Belarusian presidential election">presidential election</a>, which was widely considered rigged by European democracies and <a href="/wiki/Election_monitoring" title="Election monitoring">independent observers</a>. The official results contained implausible discrepancies, particularly at the nationwide level but also in many individual electoral districts. Based on exit polls, Lukashenko might have lost the elections to <a href="/wiki/Sviatlana_Tsikhanouskaya" title="Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya">Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Lukashenko regime had been widely accused of <a href="/wiki/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud">electoral fraud</a> in previous elections, including by <a href="/wiki/Organization_for_Security_and_Co-operation_in_Europe" title="Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe">Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe</a> (OSCE) observers, who were often restricted from monitoring election conduct.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Belarus_election_notdemo_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Belarus_election_notdemo-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-atlanticcouncil_about_elections_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-atlanticcouncil_about_elections-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The election resulted in Belarus' <a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Belarusian_protests" title="2020–2021 Belarusian protests">largest-ever protests</a>, which were violently repressed by the government. Around 30,000 people were arrested, with several deaths and thousands of documented cases of torture in custody.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most Western countries <a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_2020_Belarusian_presidential_election_and_protests" title="International reactions to the 2020 Belarusian presidential election and protests">refused to recognize the result of the election</a>. The <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> imposed sanctions on Belarusian officials in response to the electoral fraud and the violent quashing of the subsequent protests.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Relations deteriorated further in the following year in May 2021, when Belarus <a href="/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978" title="Ryanair Flight 4978">intercepted a Polish commercial airplane overflying its territory on a regularly scheduled passenger flight</a> and arrested two of its passengers, opposition activist and journalist <a href="/wiki/Roman_Protasevich" title="Roman Protasevich">Roman Protasevich</a> and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega. In response, the United States, European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada announced further sanctions against members of the government of Belarus as well as Belarusian state-owned companies. The sanctions included individual travel bans for government members, asset freezes<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and a ban on Belarusian aircraft from flying into EU airspace.<sup id="cite_ref-eu-sactions_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eu-sactions-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics" title="2020 Summer Olympics">2020 Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> in August 2021, Poland granted <a href="/wiki/Right_of_asylum" title="Right of asylum">asylum</a> to Belarusian sprinter <a href="/wiki/Krystsina_Tsimanouskaya" title="Krystsina Tsimanouskaya">Krystsina Tsimanouskaya</a>, which led to further Belarus-EU tensions. Tsimanouskaya had criticized the management style of her coaches, who then tried to force her back to Belarus; fearing retaliation at home, she refused to board her return flight.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Key_features">Key features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Key features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2021, Lithuania began reporting a sudden increase in the number of irregular border crossings from Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By June, Lithuania had detained over 600 people trying to enter the country (for comparison, 81 people were apprehended in the entire previous year). At the same time, Lukashenko began threatening to allow human traffickers and drug smugglers into Europe,<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> later also implying he might provide migrants with weapons.<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p> Iraqi TV stations repeatedly broadcast a statement by Lukashenko that Belarus would no longer prevent migrants from crossing into the European Union.<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Syrian media also widely reported on the new "policy".<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Belarusian authorities encouraged the impression that Belarus was a convenient gateway into Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-dw190821_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw190821-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lithuania_-_Migrant_Influx_EU_Civil_Protection_Mechanism_response_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Lithuania_-_Migrant_Influx_EU_Civil_Protection_Mechanism_response_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Lithuania_-_Migrant_Influx_EU_Civil_Protection_Mechanism_response_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Lithuania_-_Migrant_Influx_EU_Civil_Protection_Mechanism_response_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Lithuania_-_Migrant_Influx_EU_Civil_Protection_Mechanism_response_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Lithuania_-_Migrant_Influx_EU_Civil_Protection_Mechanism_response_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Lithuania_-_Migrant_Influx_EU_Civil_Protection_Mechanism_response_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3250" data-file-height="2098" /></a><figcaption>Migrant influx into Lithuania provoked by the border crisis</figcaption></figure> <p>Ethnic and religious minorities from Iraq (<a href="/wiki/Kurds_in_Iraq" title="Kurds in Iraq">Kurds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a>) were the most frequent category of migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-lrt.inv1_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lrt.inv1-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to a <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Canadian Broadcasting Corporation">CBC</a> investigation, many fled persecution from the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-cbc_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbc-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but also many migrants come from the <a href="/wiki/Kurdistan_Region" title="Kurdistan Region">Kurdistan Region</a>, which is among the safest in the Middle East; they sought a better life abroad due to the lack of opportunities in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Thus most of the migrants were Iraqi Kurds but also included numbers of Iraqi Arabs, Syrians, Yemenites, and some from other regions in both Asia and Africa,<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> including from Afghanistan and Cameroon, notwithstanding a number of Russians.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Role_of_airlines_and_tourist_agencies">Role of airlines and tourist agencies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Role of airlines and tourist agencies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By mid-summer 2021, reports began emerging that Iraqi travel agencies were organizing "tourist trips" to Belarus<sup id="cite_ref-bbc1_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> at significantly reduced prices.<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Belarus" title="Visa policy of Belarus">Belarus' visa rules</a> were also made much looser in August, allowing citizens of Middle Eastern countries to be issued a Belarusian visa on arrival in Minsk.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc1_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Belarusian travel agencies began promoting "tours" to Belarus from Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-dw190821_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw190821-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the same time, the weekly number of flights to <a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a> increased significantly.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Airways" title="Iraqi Airways">Iraqi Airways</a> doubled the frequency of its Baghdad-Minsk flights;<sup id="cite_ref-:9_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Belavia" title="Belavia">Belavia</a>, Belarus's state-owned airline, also provided more offers to Middle East flyers.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc1_59-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A journalist from <i><a href="/wiki/Komsomolskaya_Pravda" title="Komsomolskaya Pravda">Komsomolskaya Pravda</a></i> noted that while the flight from Baghdad to Minsk carried about 180 people, only 5 people flew in the opposite direction.<sup id="cite_ref-kp_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kp-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 2 August, Iraqi Airways announced three new direct flights to Minsk from the Iraqi cities of <a href="/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erbil" title="Erbil">Erbil</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sulaymaniyah" title="Sulaymaniyah">Sulaymaniyah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Another major air route was the <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a>—Minsk flight operated by <a href="/wiki/Belavia" title="Belavia">Belavia</a><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Airlines" title="Turkish Airlines">Turkish Airlines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 28 October, Syrian <a href="/wiki/Cham_Wings_Airlines" title="Cham Wings Airlines">Cham Wings Airlines</a>, after having made several charter flights, launched a daily connection from <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a> to the Belarusian capital.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A number of travel agencies in Belarus are believed to have been instructed by the government to organize "Belarus tours" for Iraqis. The most prominent was the Belarusian state-owned Tsentrkurort <i>Tsentrkurort</i> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Центркурорт</span>), which is subordinated to the presidential administration of Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For instance, an investigation by the Russian organization Dossier and German newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Der_Spiegel" title="Der Spiegel">Der Spiegel</a></i> revealed that Tsentrkurort was collaborating with several Belarusian and Iraqi travel agencies to facilitate visas for "hunting tours" in Belarus, as well as handling travel arrangements such as flights and accommodation.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The travel agency <i>Oskartur</i> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Оскартур</span>) was also heavily involved in this particular scheme.<sup id="cite_ref-dossier_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dossier-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Pretext" title="Pretext">pretext</a> "hunting tours" may have been chosen because hunting was exempted from <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Belarus" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus">COVID-19 pandemic</a> travel restrictions in place at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-ky1_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ky1-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was also reported that several travel agencies, including <i>Oskartur</i>, were given full access to the international zone of <a href="/wiki/Minsk_National_Airport" title="Minsk National Airport">Minsk airport</a> and delegated the power to issue visas, normally reserved for border guards. These companies were suspected to have received special privileges from airport staff and authorities, as other travel agencies were not allowed to provide similar services.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_the_border">On the border</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: On the border"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lithuania-Belarus_border_(2008).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Lithuania-Belarus_border_%282008%29.jpg/220px-Lithuania-Belarus_border_%282008%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Lithuania-Belarus_border_%282008%29.jpg/330px-Lithuania-Belarus_border_%282008%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Lithuania-Belarus_border_%282008%29.jpg/440px-Lithuania-Belarus_border_%282008%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Border markers with a fence on the Lithuanian side in 2015, before the construction of a new barrier.</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the investigation of <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_National_Radio_and_Television" title="Lithuanian National Radio and Television">LRT</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian state">Lithuanian state</a> media outlet, Iraqi Kurds claimed that they were told that entering the European Union via Belarus was legal. After a few days in Belarusian hotels, migrants were collected, taken to the border and instructed to proceed on foot, believing that a car would be waiting for them in Lithuania. It was reported that they paid up to <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">€</a>15,000 for travel and tourist visas as well as <a href="/wiki/US$" class="mw-redirect" title="US$">US$</a>3,000–4,000 deposits.<sup id="cite_ref-lrt.inv1_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lrt.inv1-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the investigation of Belarusian news server <i>reform.by</i>, people from the Middle East believe that they should destroy their passport in order to avoid <a href="/wiki/Deportation" title="Deportation">deportation</a> from the EU.<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Belsat_TV" title="Belsat TV">Belsat TV</a> journalists found groups in social networks and <a href="/wiki/Telegram_(software)" title="Telegram (software)">Telegram</a> groups which provide help and advice for those who cross the Belarus–Lithuania border. Videos of people crossing fences on the Lithuanian side were published there.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Migrants repeatedly used the cover story that they are students from Belarusian universities.<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc1_59-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-curr2_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-curr2-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Role_of_Belarusian_border_guards">Role of Belarusian border guards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Role of Belarusian border guards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Belarus state involvement was suspected from the very beginning of the crisis. Lukashenko personally confirmed that the involvement of Belarusian border troops is "absolutely possible" shortly after numerous videos appeared online showing Belarusian border guards assisting migrants in crossing the border and preventing them from returning to Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In July, reports emerged that Belarusian border guards had been instructed to turn a blind eye to undocumented migrants<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and stop communicating with their Lithuanian counterparts.<sup id="cite_ref-dw_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August, footage from a <a href="/wiki/Frontex" title="Frontex">Frontex</a> helicopter showed a group of migrants accompanied by a Belarusian border guard vehicle.<sup id="cite_ref-delfi0308_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-delfi0308-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to both the Lithuanian government and reports from migrants themselves, some of the smugglers transporting and advising migrants were being paid by Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-abc.1_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc.1-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most often Belarusian soldiers were directly involved themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_54-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November, several recordings appeared on social media showing Belarusian soldiers shooting near immigrants in order to intimidate them, recorded from both the Polish and Belarusian sides of the border.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> reported about migrants brought to the border at gunpoint or trucked by people wearing <a href="/wiki/Balaclava_(clothing)" title="Balaclava (clothing)">balaclavas</a>; the migrants were then additionally given planks to cross a small border river called <a href="/wiki/Svislach_(Neman)" title="Svislach (Neman)">Svislach</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later in the crisis, the migrants would be given tools to destroy the border infrastructure. Exiled politician <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Latushko" title="Pavel Latushko">Pavel Latushko</a> claimed that the Belarusian military trained several war veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan to carry out attacks on borders and inside the EU.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was stressed that Belarus previously received significant financial assistance to strengthen the border: in 2001–2012, Belarus received €47.5 million for "integrated border management" and €21 million additionally for related regional projects.<sup id="cite_ref-belsat.money_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-belsat.money-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After 2012, Belarus received at least €15 million for border-related issues (excluding customs).<sup id="cite_ref-belsat.money_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-belsat.money-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In particular, EU funded the reequipment of Belarusian border infrastructure which was considered a "significant and effective" help, paid for special BOMBEL project against illegal migration and other projects (AENEAS and AWABEL).<sup id="cite_ref-belsat.money_84-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-belsat.money-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Illegal migrants had full permissiveness to violate several Belarusian laws without any punishment. Belarusian lawyer Mikhail Kiryliuk suggested that the migrants made at least five violations of the Code about administrative offenses (articles 11.3, 16.17, 18.20, 18.29, 24.23) and three violations of the <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Code_of_Belarus" title="Criminal Code of Belarus">Criminal Code</a> (293, 371, 126). He also suggested that inaction of the Belarusian military who stood just behind the migrants attacking Polish border guards can be treated as a violation of the Criminal Code.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smugglers pick those migrants who managed to cross the border in the EU and transfer them westwards (usually to Germany).<sup id="cite_ref-reuters20211014_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters20211014-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While human trafficking is a crime, Polish authorities have encountered misinformation suggesting that Poland allowed such operations to take place.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Up to 4 November 2021, 235 people have been detained in <a href="/wiki/Podlaskie_Voivodeship" title="Podlaskie Voivodeship">Podlaskie Voivodeship</a> alone due to <a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking" title="Human trafficking">human trafficking</a> charges since the crisis on the Polish border began.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, those migrants who fail to cross the border are often prohibited to return home from Belarus and are forced to stay on the border (one of the tactics used by the Belarusian military was compared to <a href="/wiki/Barrier_troops" title="Barrier troops">anti-retreat forces</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-c97.20211013_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-c97.20211013-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A group of Yazidi migrants complained to reporters that they were beaten by Belarusian border guards when they tried to return to Iraq after an unsuccessful attempt to sneak to Poland. The guards, according to these people, forced them to stay on the border.<sup id="cite_ref-c97.20211013_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-c97.20211013-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An Iraqi Kurd who decided to seek political asylum in Belarus after unsuccessful attempt to sneak to Poland claimed that the Belarusian police used a stun gun and forced him to leave the country after he declared his wish to stay in Belarus as a legal refugee.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> research, Belarusian border guards gathered those migrants who were pushed back from Poland to Belarus detaining and abusing them in special sites and not letting them to return to Minsk or their home.<sup id="cite_ref-hrw.1_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hrw.1-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The main purpose of the Lukashenko-led crisis is, according to Maksim Samorukov of the <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Moscow_Center" title="Carnegie Moscow Center">Carnegie Moscow Center</a>, the attempt to legitimize his rigged <a href="/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2020 Belarusian presidential election">reelection in 2020</a> and to lift <a href="/wiki/Sanctions_against_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctions against Belarus">sanctions</a> by showing his ability to stop the influx of migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-crng.121121_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crng.121121-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lithuania">Lithuania</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Lithuania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lithuania has a 680-kilometre-long (420&#160;mi) <a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Lithuania_border" title="Belarus–Lithuania border">border with Belarus</a>. The border is described as poorly protected, often with low wooden fences or small ditches.<sup id="cite_ref-dw_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to public figures, the country had 81 refugees in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the years preceding the crisis, the number of illegal migrants crossing into Lithuania via Belarus averaged around 70.<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, in June 2021, the number of illegal migrants who were detained rose to around 470, rising to thousands the next month.<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="float:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Illegal migrants crossing<br />the Belarus–Lithuania border </th></tr> <tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Number </th></tr> <tr> <td>2015 </td> <td>280<sup id="cite_ref-bbc1_59-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2017 </td> <td>72 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td>104 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019 </td> <td>46 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2020 </td> <td>81<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 (June) </td> <td>470<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 (late July) </td> <td>ca. 2,600<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 (by 7 August)<sup id="cite_ref-lt-migrants-stats_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-migrants-stats-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td>4,112 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 (by 9 November)<sup id="cite_ref-lt-migrants-stats_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-migrants-stats-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td>4,220 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="float:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3">Illegal migrants in Lithuania by<br />nationality, 2021 (as of 9 November 2021) </th></tr> <tr> <th>Nationality </th> <th>Region of origin </th> <th>Number </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> </td> <td>Western Asia </td> <td>2,811 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Republic of the Congo">Republic of the Congo</a> </td> <td>Central Africa </td> <td>204 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> </td> <td>Western Asia </td> <td>147 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cameroon" title="Cameroon">Cameroon</a> </td> <td>West-Central Africa </td> <td>134 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> </td> <td>South-Central Asia </td> <td>101 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> </td> <td>Eurasia </td> <td>93 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a> </td> <td>Eastern Europe </td> <td>91 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> </td> <td>Western Asia </td> <td>87 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Other </td> <td> </td> <td>444 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Total </th> <th>4,220 </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3">Source: <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Statistics_(Lithuania)" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Statistics (Lithuania)">Department of Statistics (Lithuania)</a><sup id="cite_ref-lt-migrants-stats_21-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-migrants-stats-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p>Lithuanian officials said that Belarusian authorities were encouraging illegal migration from Iraq and <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> to Lithuania by organizing groups of refugees and helping them cross the Belarusian-Lithuanian border.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ft_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> European officials blamed Belarusian travel agencies for helping illegal migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ft_100-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The majority of migrants were from Iraq, but citizens of other Middle Eastern and African countries were also among them.<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Their final destination is usually not Lithuania, but <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_Germany" title="Immigration to Germany">Germany</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dw_76-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Belarusian authorities were harshly critical of the EU's decisions. On 28 June, Belarus unilaterally withdrew from its readmission agreement with the EU.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc1_59-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Belarusian representative at the <a href="/wiki/OSCE" class="mw-redirect" title="OSCE">OSCE</a> criticized European officials for politicizing the problem and not cooperating with Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August, Lukashenko hinted at the possibility of sending not only illegal migrants but also <a href="/wiki/Radioactive_materials" class="mw-redirect" title="Radioactive materials">radioactive materials</a> for a "<a href="/wiki/Dirty_bomb" title="Dirty bomb">dirty bomb</a>" through the border.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (November 2021)">better&#160;source&#160;needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Incidents">Incidents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Incidents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>On 23 June, migrants rioted in a camp in <a href="/wiki/Pabrad%C4%97" title="Pabradė">Pabradė</a>. <a href="/wiki/Tear_gas" title="Tear gas">Tear gas</a> was used to suppress the protests.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 23 July, two children who illegally crossed the border with their families were hospitalized in Lithuania after Belarusian human traffickers gave them unknown pills to calm them down.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the laboratory tests, the pills contained <a href="/wiki/Methadone" title="Methadone">methadone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 26 July, migrants demanded to leave the camp. 16 migrants were detained.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc1_59-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Internal_troopers_of_Belarus_with_shields_(Minsk,_20_September_2020)_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Internal_troopers_of_Belarus_with_shields_%28Minsk%2C_20_September_2020%29_02.jpg/220px-Internal_troopers_of_Belarus_with_shields_%28Minsk%2C_20_September_2020%29_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Internal_troopers_of_Belarus_with_shields_%28Minsk%2C_20_September_2020%29_02.jpg/330px-Internal_troopers_of_Belarus_with_shields_%28Minsk%2C_20_September_2020%29_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Internal_troopers_of_Belarus_with_shields_%28Minsk%2C_20_September_2020%29_02.jpg/440px-Internal_troopers_of_Belarus_with_shields_%28Minsk%2C_20_September_2020%29_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2752" data-file-height="1835" /></a><figcaption>Uniform and equipment of Belarusian military men on a video published on 5 August resemble <a href="/wiki/Internal_Troops_of_Belarus" title="Internal Troops of Belarus">Internal Troops of Belarus</a> (photo taken during 2020 protests in Minsk)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>On 5 August, Belarusian officials, wearing uniforms, riot shields and helmets, were recorded on camera near the Belarus–Lithuania border pushing and urging the migrants to cross the European Union border.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>On the night from 5 to 6 August, Lithuanian officials reported that they saw Belarusian officials using <a href="/wiki/Signal_flare" class="mw-redirect" title="Signal flare">signal flares</a> and heard shooting of live ammunition from <a href="/wiki/Assault_rifle" title="Assault rifle">assault rifles</a> into the air from the Belarusian side.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 7 August, Iraq announced that it was stopping all flights from Iraq to Minsk, except for empty planes which would return <a href="/wiki/Iraqis" title="Iraqis">Iraqis</a> from Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 18 August, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service published a video of 12 Belarusian officers in riot gear illegally crossed into the Lithuanian territory while pushing a group of migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 7 October, Belarusian border guards reported a dead migrant from Sri Lanka found near the Lithuanian border.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Response">Response</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lithuania_Belarus_border_barrier_in_2023.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Lithuania_Belarus_border_barrier_in_2023.jpg/280px-Lithuania_Belarus_border_barrier_in_2023.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Lithuania_Belarus_border_barrier_in_2023.jpg/420px-Lithuania_Belarus_border_barrier_in_2023.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Lithuania_Belarus_border_barrier_in_2023.jpg/560px-Lithuania_Belarus_border_barrier_in_2023.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1365" /></a><figcaption>Border barrier built by Lithuania in 2022-2023</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Latvijas-Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEa_Kr%C4%81slavas_novad%C4%81.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Latvijas-Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEa_Kr%C4%81slavas_novad%C4%81.jpg/280px-Latvijas-Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEa_Kr%C4%81slavas_novad%C4%81.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Latvijas-Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEa_Kr%C4%81slavas_novad%C4%81.jpg/420px-Latvijas-Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEa_Kr%C4%81slavas_novad%C4%81.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Latvijas-Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEa_Kr%C4%81slavas_novad%C4%81.jpg/560px-Latvijas-Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEa_Kr%C4%81slavas_novad%C4%81.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1616" data-file-height="1080" /></a><figcaption>Latvian border barrier and patrols in 2023</figcaption></figure> <p>Illegal migration from Belarus forced the Lithuanian government to declare a state-level "extraordinary situation" (similar but weaker legal regime than the <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency" title="State of emergency">state of emergency</a>) on 2 July 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-en1_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-en1-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Lithuania had no experience in dealing with large numbers of illegal migrants and lacked places to accommodate them.<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dw190821_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw190821-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Tent camps, which Lithuanian officials described as "not comfortable", were built to accommodate migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 23 July, Lithuanian authorities published a plan to build a <a href="/wiki/Intermodal_container" title="Intermodal container">container</a> camp near <a href="/wiki/%C5%A0ven%C4%8Dion%C4%97liai" title="Švenčionėliai">Švenčionėliai</a> for 40,000 migrants in the worst-case scenario.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Also that month, residents of <a href="/wiki/Dieveni%C5%A1k%C4%97s" title="Dieveniškės">Dieveniškės</a> protested against proposed construction of a new camp in their region.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 26 or 27 July, locals tried to block a road to the area near <a href="/wiki/R%C5%ABdninkai_Training_Area" title="Rūdninkai Training Area">Rūdninkai</a> where a migrant camp was to be placed.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc1_59-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also in July, the Lithuanian <a href="/wiki/Seimas" title="Seimas">Seimas</a> passed a law (signed by president <a href="/wiki/Gitanas_Naus%C4%97da" title="Gitanas Nausėda">Gitanas Nausėda</a> on 21 July) making deportation of illegal migrants from Lithuania easier.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The public opinion in Lithuania opposes illegal migration and <a href="/wiki/Xenophobic" class="mw-redirect" title="Xenophobic">xenophobic</a> sentiment is reported to have spread.<sup id="cite_ref-dw_76-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lithuanian Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Gabrielius_Landsbergis" title="Gabrielius Landsbergis">Gabrielius Landsbergis</a> travelled to <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> in order to discuss the problem with the Iraqi authorities. During the trip, he requested the Iraqi government to halt the flights to Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-cbc_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbc-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On a separate occasion in mid-July, Landsbergis stated that of those who crossed the border illegally, virtually none would be granted asylum and they would be detained in a tent camp until they could be sent home.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_97-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By early August 2021, Lithuania had processed 230 asylum applications, all of which were later rejected.<sup id="cite_ref-wpost_49-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpost-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_97-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the meantime, in early July, Lithuania announced a plan to build a border barrier to stem the flow of illegal crossings.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 5 August 2021, the chief of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service presented a project of the proposed <a href="/wiki/Border_barrier" title="Border barrier">barrier</a> for the entire Belarus-Lithuania border which would be 4&#160;m (13&#160;ft) high and would use multiple layers of the <a href="/wiki/Concertina_wire" title="Concertina wire">Concertina wire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The cost of the project is estimated at €150 million and the Lithuanian parliament approved it as a matter of urgency. Other countries and institutions sent reinforcements to assist with the surge. On 24 July, <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a> sent 100&#160;km of <a href="/wiki/Barbed_wire" title="Barbed wire">barbed wire</a> to help Lithuania to build the border barrier and three drones for the Lithuanian border guards.<sup id="cite_ref-Estonia_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Estonia-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Non-EU member <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> also sent more than 38 tonnes of barbed wire to Lithuania.<sup id="cite_ref-Ukraine_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ukraine-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, by the end of July, <a href="/wiki/European_Border_and_Coast_Guard_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="European Border and Coast Guard Agency">EU Frontex</a> deployed 100 officers, 30 patrol cars and 2 helicopters to support Lithuania.<sup id="cite_ref-Frontex_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frontex-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Poland provided another helicopter.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 7–8 August, the number of migrants crossing into the country dropped to almost zero after Lithuania sent reinforcements to the border area and began broadcasting warning messages in <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdish languages">Kurdish</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> and <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> on loudspeakers.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the number of migrants on the Polish borders <a href="#November_2021">surged</a>, and some of them were active in damaging its infrastructure, on 9 November, the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Lithuania" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Lithuania">Parliament of Lithuania</a> declared the state of emergency in the border regions for one month, prohibiting entry in the area within 5&#160;km (3.1&#160;mi) of the border without Lithuanian State Border Guard Service's approval and authorising the border guards to use "mental coercion" and proportionate physical force to contain the surge.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a poll conducted in August, 33% (the highest portion) of respondents in Lithuania answered that the best solution to the migration crisis would be to build a physical fence or a wall with Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-lt-poll_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-poll-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other solutions in the answers included: pressure to Iraq, with the help of the EU, to stop the flights to Minsk (17%); requesting a transfer of some migrants to the other EU states (14%); and paying the migrants for their voluntary return (12%). Another 10% suggested negotiations with Lukashenko and only 3% suggested accepting the migrants with the strong integration programs in place.<sup id="cite_ref-lt-poll_127-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-poll-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The remaining 11% did not answer or did not have an opinion. </p><p>By early 2023, Lithuania built the 530&#160;km (330&#160;mi) barrier and implemented 100% surveillance of the border.<sup id="cite_ref-lt-completes-barrier_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-completes-barrier-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lt-barrier-surveilance_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lt-barrier-surveilance-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 18 January 2023, the Lithuanian government renounced a previous agreement with Belarus. The agreement, which was signed in 2006, had established topics of cross-border partnership. Lithuania's <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Interior_(Lithuania)" title="Ministry of the Interior (Lithuania)">Interior Ministry</a> stated that the current situation made cooperation impossible.<sup id="cite_ref-renounce_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-renounce-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Poland">Poland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Poland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency_in_Poland_(2021)" title="State of emergency in Poland (2021)">State of emergency in Poland (2021)</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:20220630_Zapora_na_granicy_polsko-bia%C5%82oruskiej_004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/20220630_Zapora_na_granicy_polsko-bia%C5%82oruskiej_004.jpg/280px-20220630_Zapora_na_granicy_polsko-bia%C5%82oruskiej_004.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/20220630_Zapora_na_granicy_polsko-bia%C5%82oruskiej_004.jpg/420px-20220630_Zapora_na_granicy_polsko-bia%C5%82oruskiej_004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/20220630_Zapora_na_granicy_polsko-bia%C5%82oruskiej_004.jpg/560px-20220630_Zapora_na_granicy_polsko-bia%C5%82oruskiej_004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Poland_border_barrier" title="Belarus–Poland border barrier">border barrier</a> constructed by Poland, 2022</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belarus-Poland_border_(en).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Belarus-Poland_border_%28en%29.png/220px-Belarus-Poland_border_%28en%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="450" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Belarus-Poland_border_%28en%29.png/330px-Belarus-Poland_border_%28en%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Belarus-Poland_border_%28en%29.png/440px-Belarus-Poland_border_%28en%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1215" data-file-height="2483" /></a><figcaption>Map of the <a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Poland_border" title="Belarus–Poland border">Belarus–Poland border</a>.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#8CC63F; color:black;">&#160;</span>&#160;Border checkpoints</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FF7BAC; color:black;">&#160;</span>&#160;Simplified border checkpoints</div></figcaption></figure> <p>On 12 July 2021, President of Poland <a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Duda" title="Andrzej Duda">Andrzej Duda</a> stated that Poland would provide assistance to Lithuania, which it sent later that month.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Following the granting of humanitarian visas to an <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic</a> athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya and her husband, Poland also accused Belarus of organizing hybrid warfare as the number of migrants crossing the <a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Poland_border" title="Belarus–Poland border">Belarus–Poland border</a> sharply increased when compared to the 2020 statistics.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 6 August, Poland reported 133 illegal crossings from Belarus over two days, which is more than the total number in the previous year,<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with the total number of illegal crossings up to that date being 552.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 9 August, Poland reported an additional 349 migrant arrivals over the weekend.<sup id="cite_ref-PolandReuters_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PolandReuters-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The number of intercepted attempts increased significantly in the autumn. In September 2021, Polish authorities estimated the number of migrants waiting to sneak from Belarus to the EU at 10,000.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In total, there were more than 32,000 intercepted attempts of immigrants to cross the Polish border as of 11 November 2021, of which 3,500 attempts were made in August, almost 7,700 in September and almost 17,300 in October.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November 2021, the Polish government estimated that 3,000–4,000 migrants were waiting in the vicinity of the border.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early August, a group of 32 <a href="/wiki/Afghans" title="Afghans">Afghans</a> and 41 Iraqi Kurds appeared on the border in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">fall of Kabul</a> and were denied entry to either country, resulting in lines of military personnel on each side isolating the encamped migrants. Their appearance follows an influx of thousands of mostly Western Asian migrants that had crossed the border from Belarus into Poland and other eastern EU members Latvia and <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a> in the months leading up to the fall of Kabul, with the EU claiming that Belarus purposefully engineered the migration in response to union sanctions. While the Belarusian government denied this accusation, Poland called it a "<a href="/wiki/Hybrid_warfare" title="Hybrid warfare">hybrid attack</a>" on the bloc and said the migrants should not be allowed entry because they are technically still in Belarus. After the migrants sought asylum assistance, the <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a> (ECHR) summoned Poland and Latvia to provide them "food, water, clothing, adequate medical care and, if possible, temporary shelter" for three weeks, according to a statement from the court on 25 August, although neither country was ordered to allow the migrants past the border.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bezpieczna_granica_to_taka_na_ktorej_nikt_nie_ginie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Bezpieczna_granica_to_taka_na_ktorej_nikt_nie_ginie.jpg/220px-Bezpieczna_granica_to_taka_na_ktorej_nikt_nie_ginie.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Bezpieczna_granica_to_taka_na_ktorej_nikt_nie_ginie.jpg/330px-Bezpieczna_granica_to_taka_na_ktorej_nikt_nie_ginie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Bezpieczna_granica_to_taka_na_ktorej_nikt_nie_ginie.jpg/440px-Bezpieczna_granica_to_taka_na_ktorej_nikt_nie_ginie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3016" /></a><figcaption>People in <a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a> take part in a protest rally on October 17 in solidarity with <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_Europe" title="Immigration to Europe">migrants</a> who have been pushed back at Poland's border with Belarus. The sign reads "A safe border is one where no one dies!"</figcaption></figure> <p>Since 18 August 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Polish_Armed_Forces" title="Polish Armed Forces">Polish Armed Forces</a> were sent to secure the border with Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As the number of attempted crossings increased, on 2 September, Poland announced a <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency_in_Poland_(2021)" title="State of emergency in Poland (2021)">state of emergency</a> in the areas close to the border, limiting the freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, and, controversially, ordering human rights activists and doctors unaffiliated with the Border Guard to go and effectively forbidding journalists from reporting from the area,<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which <a href="/w/index.php?title=Urszula_Glensk&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Urszula Glensk (page does not exist)">Urszula Glensk</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;">&#160;&#91;<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urszula_Glensk" class="extiw" title="pl:Urszula Glensk">pl</a>&#93;</span> described as an "informational blockade" instituted by Polish Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Mateusz_Morawiecki" title="Mateusz Morawiecki">Mateusz Morawiecki</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The majority of Polish outlets signed a letter demanding that journalists be allowed to enter the restricted zone.<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Because the <a href="/wiki/Sejm" title="Sejm">Sejm</a> already extended the state of emergency for another 60 days<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and since Article 230 of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Poland" title="Constitution of Poland">Constitution of Poland</a> prohibits to extend it further, the government announced that it would let the journalists in, while attempting to maintain most of the regulations barring people from entering the zone.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Just like Lithuania, Poland announced its intention to build a border wall with Belarus. On 25 October, <a href="/wiki/Mariusz_B%C5%82aszczak" title="Mariusz Błaszczak">Mariusz Błaszczak</a>, the defence minister, announced the construction of a permanent <a href="/wiki/Border_barrier" title="Border barrier">border wall</a> on Poland's 400&#160;km border with Belarus at a cost of about 350 million euros.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It also announced beefing up the security personnel at the border, which numbered 7,500 as of October 2021 and has steadily risen to 15,000 by mid-November,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_148-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and using military helicopters to patrol the border.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In general, Poles are somewhat approving the government's actions on the border. In August 2021, a poll showed that 45 percent of the Polish public positively assess the government's handling of a migrant standoff on the Belarus-Poland border while 29 percent were critical of it and 26 percent had no opinion.<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A survey in October found fewer people undecided about the issue of migration, with 54 percent supportive of the government policies and 36 percent opposed,<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> while the one in November saw many more people undecided – a quarter of respondents did not have an opinion on the topic, and the support dropped to 39 percent, with the same proportion of disapproving opinions as the previous month.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Moreover, in November 2021, a poll appeared that suggested that some 54.5% of those surveyed were in favour of the policy of <a href="/wiki/Pushback_(migration)" title="Pushback (migration)">pushbacks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2021, the head of the ruling <a href="/wiki/Law_and_Justice_(Poland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Law and Justice (Poland)">Law and Justice party</a> (PiS) and Poland's deputy Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Jaros%C5%82aw_Kaczy%C5%84ski" title="Jarosław Kaczyński">Jarosław Kaczyński</a> accused the <a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Poland" title="List of political parties in Poland">Polish opposition</a> parties of supporting Lukashenko's actions.<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November 2021, Poland's state-controlled news channel, <a href="/wiki/TVP_Info" title="TVP Info">TVP Info</a>, accused the Polish opposition of "supporting migrants and Lukashenko."<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 8 November, former Polish prime minister <a href="/wiki/Donald_Tusk" title="Donald Tusk">Donald Tusk</a> called for Poland to invoke Article 4 of the <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty" title="North Atlantic Treaty">North Atlantic Treaty</a>, which would convene a meeting of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> members to discuss the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 November, the <a href="/wiki/National_Bank_of_Poland" title="National Bank of Poland">National Bank of Poland</a> announced that it will issue <a href="/wiki/Commemorative_coin" title="Commemorative coin">commemorative coins</a> and banknotes dedicated to the defense of the eastern border.<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 18 November, Polish authorities announced that Belarus should stop provocations on the border threatening to close the railroad border checkpoint Kuźnica—Bruzgi otherwise.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Timeline_of_border_incidents">Timeline of border incidents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Timeline of border incidents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2021">2021</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: 2021"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Migrants who wanted to illegally cross the EU border into Poland used violence on several occasions, according to videos published by Polish Border Guard.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_148-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 September 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_(Poland)" title="Border Guard (Poland)">Polish Border Guard</a> published a video of Belarusian military vehicles transporting migrants and instructing them on the Belarusian side of the border.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 8 October, Polish authorities published a video with Belarusian border guards assisting the migrants cross the border.<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On the same day, the Polish military reported shooting (presumably with blank cartridges) occurring from the Belarusian side.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 October, Polish media reported about a clash between the Polish soldiers and about 60–70 migrants near the village of <a href="/wiki/Usnarz_G%C3%B3rny" title="Usnarz Górny">Usnarz Górny</a>. Two Polish soldiers were injured by branches and stones, and unidentified people attempted to break a razor wire on the border.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_148-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the night between 1 and 2 November, some unidentified uniformed men entered a few hundred meters into the Polish territory and subsequently fled back to Belarus, which made the Polish ministry of foreign affairs to summon the Belarusian <i><a href="/wiki/Charg%C3%A9_d%27affaires" title="Chargé d&#39;affaires">chargé d'affaires</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 300px; clear: ; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">Major attempt to break through the border on 8 November 2021 and its aftermath</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://img.zerkalo.io/reuters/01/10/migranty_granica_polsha_kuznica_02_09112021.jpg">Migrants' camp on Belarusian side of border</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cdn.3bls.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FD0E3XDXMAILhtS.jpg">Migrants' camp on Belarusian side of border</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" 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href="https://img.zerkalo.io/reuters/0f/e/migranty_granica_polsha_kuznica_18.jpg">Polish border guards</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://img.zerkalo.io/reuters/0b/8/migranty_granica_polsha_kuznica_12.jpg">Destroyed Polish border fence with plates</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://img.zerkalo.io/reuters/05/b/migranty_granica_polsha_kuznica_17.jpg">Belarusian military made a chain preventing migrants to go to the legal border crossing and road</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nashaniva.com/img/w870d4/photos/z_2021_11/2021-11-09175751-a7he2.jpg">A migrant cuts tree in Belarus</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nashaniva.com/img/w718d4/photos/z_2021_11/-1bes2.jpg">A crowd of migrants on 8 November</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://static.mk.ru/upload/entities/2021/11/10/18/articles/detailPicture/ff/f8/1d/79/224a1a636d32200e2e54223d11f543a6.jpg">Belarusian military behind the migrants' camp</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>On 8 November, a big crowd of several hundred illegal migrants, escorted by the Belarusian military (presumably Belarusian <i><a href="/wiki/Siloviki" class="mw-redirect" title="Siloviki">siloviki</a></i>), tried to break through the Belarus–Poland border near <a href="/wiki/Bruzgi" class="mw-redirect" title="Bruzgi">Bruzgi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grodno_Region" title="Grodno Region">Grodno Region</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-guard_167-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guard-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_168-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lrt.0811_169-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lrt.0811-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Polish border guards were expecting the column to arrive since the weekend preceding the attempted breakthrough,<sup id="cite_ref-:4_168-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> while the first reports about the big column of migrants heading to the Bruzgi-<a href="/wiki/Ku%C5%BAnica,_Podlaskie_Voivodeship" title="Kuźnica, Podlaskie Voivodeship">Kuźnica</a> border crossing appeared in the morning that day.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <i>reform.by</i>, the majority of migrants in this group were Iraqi Kurds, who organized and gathered via social media.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Belarusian authorities did not allow migrants to go to the neutral zone via the border crossing, but forwarded them to the neutral zone through the nearby forest.<sup id="cite_ref-c97.0811_172-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-c97.0811-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Both sides published videos showing attempts to cut the barbed wire with <a href="/wiki/Wire_cutter" class="mw-redirect" title="Wire cutter">wire cutters</a> and scissors, provided by the Belarusian military,<sup id="cite_ref-:7_54-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_168-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or to destroy it with logs.<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The migrants threw stones at Polish border guards,<sup id="cite_ref-lrt.0811_169-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lrt.0811-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> who used tear gas in response.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some 21,000 soldiers, border guards and policemen were concentrated in the area.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_168-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <i>The Guardian</i> and <i>Associated Press</i>, the standoff was an attempt to increase pressure on Poland and the European Union by Lukashenko.<sup id="cite_ref-guard_167-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guard-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The atmosphere calmed down the following day.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to the standoff, the Polish government closed the border crossing at <a href="/wiki/Ku%C5%BAnica,_Podlaskie_Voivodeship" title="Kuźnica, Podlaskie Voivodeship">Kuźnica</a>, to the north-east of <a href="/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok" title="Białystok">Białystok</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As the traffic was directed to other border crossings, they saw immense queues, with <i>Rzeczpospolita</i> reporting a 26-kilometre-long (16&#160;mi) traffic jam full of lorries towards <a href="/wiki/Bobrowniki,_Bia%C5%82ystok_County" title="Bobrowniki, Białystok County">Bobrowniki</a> checkpoint, which it estimated could be passed in 67 hours.<sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Polish government considered the closure of the whole border with Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_180-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The situation on the border also prompted Estonia, France and Ireland to convene a meeting of the <a href="/wiki/UN_Security_council" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Security council">UN Security Council</a> to discuss the matter on 11 November,<sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and some human rights organisations, including the <a href="/wiki/Helsinki_Committee_for_Human_Rights" title="Helsinki Committee for Human Rights">Helsinki Committee for Human Rights</a>, to sue Belarus in the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a>, alleging <a href="/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" title="Crimes against humanity">crimes against humanity</a> (Belarus is not party to the ICC).<sup id="cite_ref-:5_180-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Belarus, in its turn, dismisses the allegations as a ploy to detract the inhabitants of the European Union from its own problems.<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Local representatives of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Refugees" title="United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</a> and <a href="/wiki/International_Organization_for_Migration" title="International Organization for Migration">International Organization for Migration</a> who visited the camp near Bruzgi offered the migrants to voluntarily return home or to apply for refugee status in Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Belarus's leader raised the possibility of interrupting the <a href="/wiki/Yamal%E2%80%93Europe_pipeline" title="Yamal–Europe pipeline">Yamal–Europe pipeline</a> carrying <a href="/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector" title="Russia in the European energy sector">Russian gas</a> to the European Union if the bloc imposes further sanctions on Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-gas_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gas-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, Russian President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>, whose consent was needed before closing the pipe, said that Lukashenko had not consulted him before raising the possibility of stopping gas deliveries coming from Russia to the EU via a pipeline through Belarus, adding that such a move would risk harming relations between the two countries.<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 9, a Polish journalist Tadeusz Giczan published a recording made by an immigrant showing Belarusian soldiers shooting with assault rifles near immigrants sitting on the ground.<sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 12 November, the Polish Border Guard reported that the Belarusian side was destroying the border fence near <a href="/wiki/Czeremcha,_Podlaskie_Voivodeship" title="Czeremcha, Podlaskie Voivodeship">Czeremcha</a> and used green <a href="/wiki/Lasers" class="mw-redirect" title="Lasers">lasers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Strobe_light" title="Strobe light">strobe lights</a> in an apparent attempt to blind the patrolling officers, which claim the Belarusians denied.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_54-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The usage of lasers as blinding weapons is generally prohibited by the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons" title="Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons">Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 13, a recording appeared on a Russian-language Telegram channel showing Belarusian soldiers handing out bread to immigrants, shooting near them to force them to get in line.<sup id="cite_ref-190" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 November 2021, the migrants undertook another major attempt to break through the border forcefully. They started to throw rocks, bottles and pieces of wood at the Polish border guards and tried to destroy the border fence in attempt to break through the border at the temporarily closed checkpoint of Bruzgi-Kuźnica. Polish border guards used water cannons, stun grenades and tear gas on the migrants. Polish authorities accused the Belarusian military of supplying the migrants and giving them stun grenades.<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> One Polish officer was wounded in the head.<sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Altogether, Poland registered 161 attempts of illegal border crossing into its territory on 16 November.<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2022">2022</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: 2022"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 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.ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be <b>updated</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>On October 26, 2022, near the village of <a href="/wiki/%C5%81osiniany" title="Łosiniany">Łosiniany</a>, the body of a Sudanese man who drowned in a river was found.<sup id="cite_ref-196" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In December 2022, the activist group <i>Podlaskie Ochotnicze Pogotowie Humanitarne</i> received tens of requests of help from refugees on the border per week.<sup id="cite_ref-GazWyb_Yemeni_doctor_197-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GazWyb_Yemeni_doctor-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2023">2023</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 7 January, Yemeni doctor Ibrahem Jaber Ahmed Dehya died from exposure in <a href="/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest" title="Białowieża Forest">Białowieża Forest</a>. According to border guards, Ibrahem was one of a group of Yemenis who had crossed the border, crossing the river Przewłoka, a tributary of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Le%C5%9Bna_river&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Leśna river (page does not exist)">Leśna river</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;">&#160;&#91;<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C5%9Bna_(dop%C5%82yw_Bugu)" class="extiw" title="pl:Leśna (dopływ Bugu)">pl</a>&#93;</span>. The border guards detained three of the group who requested help while Ibrahim was ill but still alive. According to Ibrahem's colleagues, the border guards initially refused to search for Ibrahem, instead expulsing the three to Belarus. Other colleagues of Ibrahem searched again for help and found a second patrol, which searched for Ibrahim and found him dead. The activist group <i>Grupa Granica</i> accused the border guards of having <a href="/wiki/Pushback_(migration)" title="Pushback (migration)">pushed back</a> Ibrahem's colleagues to Belarus. Ibrahem was buried two days later in <a href="/wiki/Bohoniki" title="Bohoniki">Bohoniki</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GazWyb_Yemeni_doctor_197-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GazWyb_Yemeni_doctor-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 4 February 2023, an Ethiopian woman fell ill near <a href="/wiki/Hajn%C3%B3wka" title="Hajnówka">Hajnówka</a>. Two men who sought help for her from police and border guards were deported to Belarus and found in ill health on the Belarusian side of the border several days later. The woman was found dead on 12 February on Polish territory. <i>Grupa Granica</i> called for prosecution of those responsible for her death, accusing the authorities of not fulfilling legal obligations of the <a href="/wiki/Right_of_asylum" title="Right of asylum">right of asylum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-OKOpress_death_on_border_198-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OKOpress_death_on_border-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On October 15, 2023, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Referendum_in_Poland_in_2023&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Referendum in Poland in 2023 (page does not exist)">nationwide referendum</a> included questions regarding, among others, the acceptance of illegal immigrants and the dismantling of the barrier on the Polish-Belarusian border.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 23, 2023, the body of a foreigner was found by the tracks in the village of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dobrowoda_(Hajn%C3%B3wka_district)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Dobrowoda (Hajnówka district) (page does not exist)">Dobrowoda</a>. Another foreigner died in the presence of a Polish patrol.<sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On November 4, the body of a Syrian was found.<sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The next day, the illegal immigrant was shot by a Polish soldier.<sup id="cite_ref-202" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2024">2024</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2024, a human skull of a person from the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> was found on the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Stara_Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Stara Białowieża (page does not exist)">Stara Białowieża</a> – <a href="/wiki/Narewka" title="Narewka">Narewka</a> road.<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On March 14, 2024, the body of a 32-year-old man from <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> was found in a forest near the town of <a href="/wiki/Sorocza_N%C3%B3%C5%BCka" title="Sorocza Nóżka">Sorocza Nóżka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the morning of May 28, a migrant outside the border barrier stabbed a Polish soldier with a knife on a stick near the town of <a href="/wiki/Dubicze_Cerkiewne" title="Dubicze Cerkiewne">Dubicze Cerkiewne</a>, Podlaskie Voivodeship. The seriously injured soldier was evacuated by a military ambulance and taken to hospital. The next day the Ministry of Interior and Administration decided to send additional forces to the border and recreate a 200-meter exclusion zone along the entire border with Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The wounded soldier died in hospital 9 days later.<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Polish foreign ministry demanded that Belarus identify the assailant and hand them over to Polish officials on June 6. Belarus's border service stated that it would start an investigation to the incident if Poland gave them "concrete information" about the stabbing.<sup id="cite_ref-208" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-208"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the following days, attacks by large groups of immigrants intensified. On June 4, in another attack near <a href="/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa" title="Białowieża">Białowieża</a>, Podlaskie Voivodeship, a Border Guard officer was injured in the head and was taken to hospital. 2 border guards were also slightly injured.<sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Latvia">Latvia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Latvia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:B%C4%93g%C4%BCi_uz_Latvijas%E2%80%94Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEas_2022._gada_febru%C4%81r%C4%AB.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/B%C4%93g%C4%BCi_uz_Latvijas%E2%80%94Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEas_2022._gada_febru%C4%81r%C4%AB.jpg/220px-B%C4%93g%C4%BCi_uz_Latvijas%E2%80%94Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEas_2022._gada_febru%C4%81r%C4%AB.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/B%C4%93g%C4%BCi_uz_Latvijas%E2%80%94Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEas_2022._gada_febru%C4%81r%C4%AB.jpg/330px-B%C4%93g%C4%BCi_uz_Latvijas%E2%80%94Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEas_2022._gada_febru%C4%81r%C4%AB.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/B%C4%93g%C4%BCi_uz_Latvijas%E2%80%94Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEas_2022._gada_febru%C4%81r%C4%AB.jpg/440px-B%C4%93g%C4%BCi_uz_Latvijas%E2%80%94Baltkrievijas_robe%C5%BEas_2022._gada_febru%C4%81r%C4%AB.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="563" /></a><figcaption>A group of migrants on the Latvia–Belarus border in February 2022</figcaption></figure> <p>On 4 August 2021, it was reported that the situation on the Latvia–Belarus border was still relatively peaceful with only four registered incidents of illegal border crossing and a total of 27 third-country nationals detained in the whole 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-210" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, that soon changed and already by 8 August, 101 additional third-country nationals had been detained for illegally crossing the Latvia–Belarus border.<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 13 August, <a href="/wiki/Latvian_Armed_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Latvian Armed Forces">Latvian Armed Forces</a> (LAF) published a video showing three cases of armed Belarusian border guards trying to expel migrants to Latvia, and not allowing them return to Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-212" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-latvia.1_214-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latvia.1-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The video has not been interdependently proofed. Similar reports about Belarusian border guards pushing out migrants from Belarus to Latvia appeared later.<sup id="cite_ref-215" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Ministers_of_Latvia" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia">Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia</a> declared a state of emergency from 11 August until 10 November in the border municipalities of <a href="/wiki/Ludza_Municipality" title="Ludza Municipality">Ludza</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kr%C4%81slava_Municipality" title="Krāslava Municipality">Krāslava</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Aug%C5%A1daugava_Municipality" title="Augšdaugava Municipality">Augšdaugava</a>, and also in <a href="/wiki/Daugavpils" title="Daugavpils">Daugavpils</a> city.<sup id="cite_ref-216" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The government prohibited the submission of applications for refugee status in these border regions, and all migrants captured there had to return to Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/President_of_Latvia" title="President of Latvia">President of Latvia</a> <a href="/wiki/Egils_Levits" title="Egils Levits">Egils Levits</a> said that under <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">international law</a>, refugees should apply for asylum in the first safe country they arrive after leaving their own countries, in this case – Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 12 November, the Latvian <a href="/wiki/Saeima" title="Saeima">Saeima</a> approved the construction of a border wall on the stretch with Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Latvian border guards reported having turned back over 6,500 people attempting to cross the border from Belarus since the introduction of the state of emergency in August 2021 up to March 2022. The findings of the researchers, however, suggest that what lies behind these figures are largely the same people who were/are subjected to daily pushbacks. This has been officially confirmed by a representative of the State Border Guard who stated in an interview that those apprehended at the border every day are largely the same individuals.<sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to an independent estimate, the total number of individuals who have attempted to illegally cross the Latvian border since August 2021 could be as low as 250.<sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The same study, based on remote interviews with approximately 30 of the migrants, has also alleged extreme violence and even torture against them at the hands of the Latvian "commandos", police and soldiers. <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_the_Interior_of_Latvia" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of the Interior of Latvia">Minister of the Interior of Latvia</a> <a href="/wiki/Marija_Golubeva" title="Marija Golubeva">Marija Golubeva</a> categorically denied the accusations, as did the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_of_Latvia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Defence of Latvia">Ministry of Defense</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-222" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The State Border Guard called the accusations "blatant defamation" and pointed out that not a single case of the use or even complaints about the use of "physical force and/or special means" by a member of the State Border Guard, the National Armed Forces or the State Police against an illegal border crosser has been recorded, nor has the Emergency Medical Service any information about the injuries that could have been caused by such actions of the aforementioned institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-223" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_responses">Other responses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Other responses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="EU"><a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">EU</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: EU"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The EU condemned the use of migrants as weapons, threatened to impose further sanctions on <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes-lit-migration-crisis_224-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-lit-migration-crisis-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and pressed Iraq to suspend migrant flights between Iraq and Belarus. Iraq had previously promised to establish a joint commission with the EU to address the issue.<sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The EU initially refused a request by the Lithuanian government to help finance a border wall, noting its longstanding policy of not providing money for <a href="/wiki/Border_barrier" title="Border barrier">border barriers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_148-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November, however, a proposal was circulated proposing some EU funding for "border infrastructure", provided the recipient countries permit the EU's own border agency Frontex to help manage the borders, which Poland has to date refused to do.<sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Joanna Hosa of the <a href="/wiki/European_Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="European Council on Foreign Relations">European Council on Foreign Relations</a> noted that "Poland has an ongoing <a href="/wiki/Poland_in_the_European_Union" title="Poland in the European Union">battle with Brussels</a> over the <a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%93present_Polish_constitutional_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2015–present Polish constitutional crisis">rule of law situation</a>, and so Poland is trying to show that it can manage the problem alone. Asking the EU for help would not necessarily be an easy thing for the Polish government to do."<sup id="cite_ref-227" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-227"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The EU and Archbishop <a href="/wiki/Wojciech_Polak" title="Wojciech Polak">Wojciech Polak</a>, the head of <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Poland" title="Catholic Church in Poland">Catholic Church in Poland</a>, called for <a href="/wiki/Aid_agency" title="Aid agency">humanitarian organizations</a> such as <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res" title="Médecins Sans Frontières">Médecins Sans Frontières</a> to gain access to the borders to help migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-gas_184-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gas-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-228" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-228"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_government_actors">Other government actors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Other government actors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Flag_of_NATO.svg/20px-Flag_of_NATO.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Flag_of_NATO.svg/31px-Flag_of_NATO.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Flag_of_NATO.svg/40px-Flag_of_NATO.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>: The <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> condemned "the continued instrumentalisation of irregular migration artificially created by Belarus as part of hybrid actions targeted against Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia for political purposes."<sup id="cite_ref-229" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-229"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>: Germany, one of the primary end destinations of many of the migrants,<sup id="cite_ref-230" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> registered 2,000 asylum seekers who had passed through Belarus, compared to 26 during the first half of 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-231" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-231"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In October 2021, German foreign minister <a href="/wiki/Heiko_Maas" title="Heiko Maas">Heiko Maas</a> said that the airlines that carry migrants to Belarus "make themselves into helpers of the rulers in Minsk."<sup id="cite_ref-232" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-232"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The municipal government of <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> declared its readiness to accept migrants.<sup id="cite_ref-233" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-233"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November 2021, German chancellor <a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a> made a phone call to Lukashenko on this issue but Lukashenko's spokesperson <a href="/wiki/Natallia_Eismant" title="Natallia Eismant">Natallia Eismant</a> and the German authorities voiced completely different versions about its content.<sup id="cite_ref-234" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-234"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="630" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>: In July 2021, Estonia condemned the human trafficking organized by Belarusian authorities and sent its border patrols and tents to boost the protection of the Belarus–Lithuania border.<sup id="cite_ref-235" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-235"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-236" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-237" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 6 August 2021, Estonia announced that it would raise the question of migrant crisis at the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">United Nations Security Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-238" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 17 November 2021, the Estonian government called almost 1,700 reserve soldiers to hold a snap defence readiness exercise; the reserve engineers will construct temporary fences in Estonia's border areas with Russia<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>: On 11 November 2021, Ukraine announced that they would deploy 8,500 soldiers and police officers, as well as 15 helicopters, to the border with Belarus to prevent possible attempts by stranded migrants to cross into the country in order to reach the European Union.<sup id="cite_ref-240" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>: In November 2021, the United Kingdom sent a contingent of troops (10 soldiers) from the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Engineers" title="Royal Engineers">Royal Engineers</a> to support Poland's border security.<sup id="cite_ref-241" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This number was increased to 150 later that same month.<sup id="cite_ref-242" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 9 December 2021, the United Kingdom's <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)">Ministry of Defence</a> announced it would send 140 military engineers to provide Poland with support at its border with Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-243" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/45px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>: On 7 August 2021, Iraq stopped all direct flights to Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_244-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Three months later, the government of Iraq closed two honorary consulates of Belarus in Baghdad and Erbil in an attempt to suppress the schemes of illegal migration via Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-honorary_consulates_of_Belarus_245-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-honorary_consulates_of_Belarus-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-246" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 18 November, Iraq organized a rescue flight from Minsk which took away 430 migrants who agreed to come back home.<sup id="cite_ref-247" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-247"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The second rescue flight was scheduled on 19 November, but it was cancelled for unknown reason.<sup id="cite_ref-248" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/35px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/45px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>: In November 2021, <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Turkey" title="Government of Turkey">Turkey</a> restricted certain nationalities from buying tickets for flights to Belarus, potentially closing off one of the main routes that the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">EU</a> says Belarus has used to fly in migrants by the thousand to engineer a humanitarian crisis on its frontier. <a href="/wiki/European_Council" title="European Council">EU</a> officials welcomed this decision.<sup id="cite_ref-249" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-249"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Turkey also dismissed Polish allegations about aiding the migrant flow to its border.<sup id="cite_ref-250" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-250"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Estonia">Estonia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Estonia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Estonia, which shares a border with the Russian Federation, has been mobilizing its troops to protect its Southeastern and Northeastern border and constructing border barriers from <a href="/wiki/Barbed_wire" title="Barbed wire">barbed wire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-251" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> 17th Engineer Battalion is moving from its place of dislocation (<a href="/wiki/Tapa,_Estonia" title="Tapa, Estonia">Tapa</a>) towards the Southeastern border.<sup id="cite_ref-252" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-252"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From 19 to 26 November, all flights around the Russian border are forbidden due to the construction of barriers for "hybrid attacks".<sup id="cite_ref-253" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November, Estonia announced that they will send 100 troops from <a href="/wiki/Estonian_Defence_Forces" title="Estonian Defence Forces">engineering, military police and reconnaissance units</a> to Poland.<sup id="cite_ref-254" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Attempts_to_prevent_flights">Attempts to prevent flights</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Attempts to prevent flights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Despite Iraq stopping all direct flights to Belarus,<sup id="cite_ref-:8_244-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the number of arrivals did not reduce as many people instead began using indirect routes via <a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a> or <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-255" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-255"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There were calls for <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a>, where many companies <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_lease" title="Aircraft lease">leasing</a> airplanes are located, to revoke their leases to Belavia, the airline carrying most of the migrants to Belarus. <a href="/wiki/Simon_Coveney" title="Simon Coveney">Simon Coveney</a>, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, said forcing airlines to break these contracts would be difficult and instead called for further sanctions.<sup id="cite_ref-256" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-256"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Belavia itself originally did not intend to restrict the flow of passengers from the Middle East to Belarus, saying that because it is not a border agency and they cannot distinguish migrants from other passengers, it may not decline services to its customers. Belarus's director of the aviation department of the ministry of transportation, Artem Sikorsky, additionally said that they were forced to fly to Istanbul because they had been shut out of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> in May due to the <a href="/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978" title="Ryanair Flight 4978">grounding of the plane</a> carrying <a href="/wiki/Roman_Protasevich" title="Roman Protasevich">Roman Protasevich</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-257" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, on 12 November 2021, Belavia was legally required by Turkey to deny boarding on any flights to Belarus to the citizens of <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-258" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-258"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Two days later, Belavia announced that it would deny boarding to the citizens of said countries as well as Afghan nationals on flights from Dubai.<sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Measures to prevent potential migrants from boarding on flights to Belarus were taken by the authorities of Lebanon, UAE and Uzbekistan.<sup id="cite_ref-260" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-261" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-262" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-262"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Human_rights_issues">Human rights issues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Human rights issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Belarus" title="Human rights in Belarus">Human rights in Belarus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Lithuania" title="Human rights in Lithuania">Human rights in Lithuania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Poland" title="Human rights in Poland">Human rights in Poland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pushback_(migration)#Poland–Belarus_border" title="Pushback (migration)">Pushback (migration) §&#160;Poland–Belarus border</a></div> <p>The legal status of migrants became more vulnerable after Belarus unilaterally withdrew from the readmission agreement with the EU,<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and up to 40% of migrants in Lithuanian camps belong to vulnerable groups.<sup id="cite_ref-cbc_53-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbc-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> EU leaders have supported the Lithuanian government in its efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes-lit-migration-crisis_224-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-lit-migration-crisis-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 4 August 2021, Belarusian border guards claimed that they found an Iraqi man in serious condition in <a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Lithuania_border" title="Belarus–Lithuania border">Benyakoni</a>, near the border with Lithuania. The unidentified man allegedly "died in the arms of the [Lithuanian] border guards". Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko ordered an investigation into his death.<sup id="cite_ref-263" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Interior_(Lithuania)" title="Ministry of the Interior (Lithuania)">Lithuanian Interior Ministry</a> dismissed the Belarusian reports that the Iraqi migrant had been found beaten to death after being turned away at the Lithuanian border, describing it as part of a <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Hybrid war">hybrid war</a> and disinformation being waged by Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-264" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Human rights activists accused Polish authorities of denying adequate medical care, food and shelter to stranded migrants,<sup id="cite_ref-265" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-265"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-266" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which prompted the intervention of the <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a>. On 25 August 2021, the court ordered Poland and Latvia to provide the migrants food, water, clothing, adequate medical care and temporary shelter, should the countries have such possibility.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Belarusian authorities refused to accept the Polish humanitarian aid intended for migrants who got stuck on the Belarusian-Polish border at least twice, in August<sup id="cite_ref-267" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-267"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and October.<sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A migrant from Yemen complained to reporters that Belarusian border guards beat up his companion and broke his leg.<sup id="cite_ref-reuters20211014_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters20211014-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A group of Yazidis from Iraq made a similar complaint.<sup id="cite_ref-c97.20211013_91-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-c97.20211013-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They also reported food shortages and said they were cold, and some of them sick.<sup id="cite_ref-c97.20211013_91-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-c97.20211013-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Another migrant was reported to be thrown into a river by a Belarusian border guard.<sup id="cite_ref-abc.1_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc.1-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Belarusian border guards were also accused of robbing the migrants of their money, phones, documents and other things from their bags.<sup id="cite_ref-abc.1_79-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc.1-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> One of the migrants claimed that he was forced by Belarusian border guards to pay US$100 to charge the phone.<sup id="cite_ref-269" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-269"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>267<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A Syrian migrant who managed to sneak into Poland but got caught there claimed that the Belarusian military threatened him not to return to Belarus, reportedly claiming that "if you come back, we will kill you".<sup id="cite_ref-270" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November 2021, after Iraq launched rescue flights for its citizens, migrants on the Belarusian side of the border reported problems that hindered their return, such as an impossibility to leave the border zone among other problems.<sup id="cite_ref-rudaw.201121_271-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rudaw.201121-271"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August Lithuania and in October Poland legalized <a href="/wiki/Pushback_(migration)" title="Pushback (migration)">pushback</a> of migrants by force,<sup id="cite_ref-272" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-273" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-273"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which is illegal under EU and international law.<sup id="cite_ref-EUobserver_274-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EUobserver-274"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-275" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>273<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Human rights group <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a> and other human rights organisations said that Poland and Lithuania breached migrants' rights, as they limit the <a href="/wiki/Right_of_asylum" title="Right of asylum">access of asylum seekers</a> to their territory.<sup id="cite_ref-EUobserver_274-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EUobserver-274"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-276" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>274<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Eve Geddie, director of Amnesty International's European Institutions Office, stated that "Forcing people back who are trying to claim asylum without an individual assessment of their protection needs is against European and international law."<sup id="cite_ref-277" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>275<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Poland and Lithuania violated international laws including the prohibition on collective expulsions stipulated in the <a href="/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights" title="European Convention on Human Rights">European Convention on Human Rights</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-278" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-278"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>276<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-279" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-279"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>277<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some of the migrants additionally claim that they were forcefully <a href="/wiki/Deported" class="mw-redirect" title="Deported">deported</a> to their country of origin, as in the case of a family from <a href="/wiki/Slemani" class="mw-redirect" title="Slemani">Slemani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan" title="Iraqi Kurdistan">Iraqi Kurdistan</a>, who reported to <a href="/wiki/Rudaw_Media_Network" title="Rudaw Media Network">Rudaw</a> that after they crossed the border into Poland, they were caught and told they would be transferred to a camp near <a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a>, but they were taken to the airport with some other migrants and flown to <a href="/wiki/Erbil" title="Erbil">Erbil</a> instead.<sup id="cite_ref-280" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>278<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 24 November 2021, <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> published a report "<i>Die Here or Go to Poland: Belarus' and Poland's Shared Responsibility for Border Abuses</i>" claiming "serious abuses on both sides of the border". HRW accused Belarusian border guards of violence, inhuman and degrading treatment and coercion, and Polish border guards — of pushing the migrants back to Belarus despite pleading for asylum. HRW accused Belarusian authorities of manufacturing the situation which resulted in at least 13 deaths, and suggested that some severe cases of inhumane treatment can be seen as a torture.<sup id="cite_ref-hrw.1_94-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hrw.1-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The groups "Grupa Granica"<sup id="cite_ref-281" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-281"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>279<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and "Fundacja Ocalenie"<sup id="cite_ref-282" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-282"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>280<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> have emerged in Poland as activists providing humanitarian aid for migrants on the ground, as well as "Sienos Grupė" <sup id="cite_ref-283" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-283"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>281<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in Lithuania. Famous human right activists such as <a href="/wiki/Anna_Alboth" title="Anna Alboth">Anna Alboth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nawal_Soufi" title="Nawal Soufi">Nawal Soufi</a>, <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Kollwelter" class="extiw" title="de:Serge Kollwelter">Serge Kollwelter</a> and others have been joining the cause of helping migrants and refugees. Organizations and activists have been facing state ordered crack-downs and criminalization of their actions in both Poland and Lithuania.<sup id="cite_ref-284" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-284"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>282<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-285" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-285"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Comparisons">Comparisons</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Comparisons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The events were compared by some commentators and human rights activists to the migrant crisis at the <a href="/wiki/Greece%E2%80%93Turkey_border" title="Greece–Turkey border">Greece–Turkey border</a> and Turkish President <a href="/wiki/Erdo%C4%9Fan" class="mw-redirect" title="Erdoğan">Erdoğan</a>'s repeated threat to Europe to expect millions of migrants if <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> were to open its borders.<sup id="cite_ref-286" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-286"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-287" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-287"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>285<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-288" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-288"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>European Union foreign affairs chief <a href="/wiki/Josep_Borrell" title="Josep Borrell">Josep Borrell</a> compared the situation on the Belarus–Poland border to the migrant crisis on the <a href="/wiki/Morocco%E2%80%93Spain_border" title="Morocco–Spain border">Morocco–Spain border</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-289" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-289"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>287<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Lithuanian prime minister <a href="/wiki/Ingrida_%C5%A0imonyt%C4%97" title="Ingrida Šimonytė">Ingrida Šimonytė</a> has also used the Morocco–Spain example and specifically a case of N.D. and N.T. v Spain as a precedent for the Lithuanian state forces` response to the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-290" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-290"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>288<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Poland's Defence Minister <a href="/wiki/Mariusz_Blaszczak" class="mw-redirect" title="Mariusz Blaszczak">Mariusz Blaszczak</a> said the border barrier marking the frontier with Belarus would resemble the one built by Hungarian Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n" title="Viktor Orbán">Viktor Orbán</a> on <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>'s border with Serbia during a migrant crisis in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-291" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-291"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>289<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-292" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-292"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Poland's Interior Minister <a href="/wiki/Mariusz_Kami%C5%84ski" title="Mariusz Kamiński">Mariusz Kamiński</a> said that the new <a href="/wiki/Barbed_tape" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbed tape">razor-wire</a> border fence armed with heat sensors and cameras will be similar to that on the Greece–Turkey border, with inspiration also drawn from the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_border_barrier" title="Hungarian border barrier">Hungarian border barrier</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-293" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-293"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>291<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Smuggling_of_cigarettes_and_drugs">Smuggling of cigarettes and drugs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Smuggling of cigarettes and drugs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Illicit_cigarette_trade#Belarus" title="Illicit cigarette trade">Illicit cigarette trade §&#160;Belarus</a></div> <p>Belarus is one of the largest sources of illegal cigarettes in the European Union: in 2017, the <a href="/wiki/European_Commissioner_for_Budget_and_Administration" title="European Commissioner for Budget and Administration">European Commissioner for Budget and Administration</a> <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Oettinger" title="Günther Oettinger">Günther Oettinger</a> estimated that nearly 10% of illicit cigarettes in the EU originated from Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-europarl_294-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-europarl-294"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>292<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is alleged that the smuggling of the <a href="/wiki/Industry_of_Belarus#Cigarettes" title="Industry of Belarus">Belarusian-produced cigarettes</a> is facilitated by various businessmen, such as <a href="/wiki/Aliaksei_Aleksin" title="Aliaksei Aleksin">Aliaksei Aleksin</a>, who are close to Alexander Lukashenko.<sup id="cite_ref-fp_295-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fp-295"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>293<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-296" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-296"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>294<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This contraband is thought to be an important revenue source for the Lukashenko regime.<sup id="cite_ref-fp_295-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fp-295"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>293<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the early weeks of the migrant crisis, Belarusian border guards told journalists that they got orders to encourage not only illegal migration, but also cigarette smuggling.<sup id="cite_ref-reform1_48-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In May 2021, Polish customs found the largest cigarette shipment ever in a rail container estimated at US$10 million (~$11.1&#160;million in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-297" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>295<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the threats to the European Union voiced by Alexander Lukashenko in May 2021, <a href="/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade" title="Illegal drug trade">drugs</a> were mentioned.<sup id="cite_ref-times.0521_298-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times.0521-298"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-299" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-299"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A former employee of the presidential administration, Anatoly Kotov, suggested that Belarusian authorities could organize a "drug problem" for the EU after the migration crisis ends.<sup id="cite_ref-300" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-300"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>297<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/European_migrant_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="European migrant crisis">European migrant crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Belarus–European Union relations">Belarus–European Union relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Latvia_relations" title="Belarus–Latvia relations">Belarus–Latvia relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Lithuania_relations" title="Belarus–Lithuania relations">Belarus–Lithuania relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Poland_relations" title="Belarus–Poland relations">Belarus–Poland relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Migration_diplomacy" title="Migration diplomacy">Migration diplomacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swarming_(military)" title="Swarming (military)">Swarming (military)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output 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том, что Беларусь перестанет препятствовать беженцам, стремящимся в ЕС, по иракскому государственному телевидению крутили несколько дней подряд»).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Tsentrkurort</i> who is subordinated to the presidential administration of Belarus recommended the intermediary companies to check into hotels owned by the presidential administration: <i>Minsk, Yubileyny, Prezident, Planeta</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-ky1_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ky1-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-299"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-299">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Quote: "We stopped drugs and migrants. 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Мини-расследование KYKY (речь о миллионах!)"</a>. <i>kyky.org</i> (in Russian). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211021140638/https://kyky.org/money/pryamo-seychas-v-aeroportu-minska-na-migrantah-nelegalno-nazhivaetsya-neskolko-turfirm-mini-rassledovanie-kyky-rech-o-millionah">Archived</a> from the original on 21 October 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Здесь тоже плохо, мы заперты". Рассказы нелегальных мигрантов, которые пробрались в Литву из Беларуси"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Current_Time_TV" title="Current Time TV">Current Time TV</a></i> (in Russian). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210814123843/https://www.currenttime.tv/a/v-irake-ploho-strelyayut-i-net-deneg-zdes-tozhe-ploho-my-zaperty-rasskazy-nelegalov-kotorye-perebralis-v-litvu-iz-belarusi/31389696.html">Archived</a> from the original on 14 August 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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ТОП парушэнняў на мяжы, на якія "закрылі вочы"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/European_Radio_for_Belarus" title="European Radio for Belarus">European Radio for Belarus</a></i> (in Belarusian). 18 November 2021. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211118184049/https://euroradio.fm/migrantam-mozhna-usyo-top-parushennyau-na-myazhy-na-yakiya-zakryli-vochy">Archived</a> from the original on 18 November 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Reuters. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211016110113/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/forests-poland-belarus-border-migrants-fight-survival-2021-10-14/">Archived</a> from the original on 16 October 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Мы с ним поговорили"</a>. <i>zerkalo.io</i>. 15 November 2021. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211115190235/https://news.zerkalo.io/life/5760.html">Archived</a> from the original on 15 November 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Greece">Immigration to Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African_immigration_to_Europe" title="African immigration to Europe">African immigration to Europe</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Migration_diplomacy" title="Migration diplomacy">Migration diplomacy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Migrant vehicle incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_2007_Malta_migrant_shipwreck" title="May 2007 Malta migrant shipwreck">May 2007 Malta migrant shipwreck</a> (May 2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Mediterranean_Sea_migrant_shipwreck" title="2009 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck">2009 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck</a> (March 2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Mediterranean_Sea_migrant_shipwreck" title="2011 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck">2011 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck</a> (April 2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck" title="2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck">Lampedusa shipwreck</a> (October 2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Malta_migrant_shipwreck" title="2014 Malta migrant shipwreck">2014 Malta migrant shipwreck</a> (September 2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Libya_migrant_shipwreck" title="2014 Libya migrant shipwreck">2014 Libya migrant shipwreck</a> (September 2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Sky_M_incident" title="Blue Sky M incident">Blue Sky M incident</a> (December 2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezadeen_incident" title="Ezadeen incident">Ezadeen incident</a> (January 2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burgenland_corpses_discovery" title="Burgenland corpses discovery">Burgenland corpses discovery</a> (August 2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Alan_Kurdi" title="Death of Alan Kurdi">Death of Alan Kurdi</a> (September 2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Egypt_migrant_shipwreck" title="2016 Egypt migrant shipwreck">2016 Egypt migrant shipwreck</a> (September 2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_2016_Libya_migrant_shipwrecks" title="November 2016 Libya migrant shipwrecks">November 2016 Libya migrant shipwrecks</a> (November 2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Libya_migrant_shipwrecks" title="2018 Libya migrant shipwrecks">2018 Libya migrant shipwrecks</a> (January 2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essex_lorry_deaths" title="Essex lorry deaths">Essex lorry deaths</a> (October 2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sofia_lorry_deaths" title="Sofia lorry deaths">Sofia lorry deaths</a> (February 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Calabria_migrant_boat_disaster" title="2023 Calabria migrant boat disaster">2023 Calabria migrant boat disaster</a> (February 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Tunisia_migrant_boat_disasters" title="2023 Tunisia migrant boat disasters">2023 Tunisia migrant boat disasters</a> (March &amp; April 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Libya_migrant_boats_sinking" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Libya migrant boats sinking">2023 Libya migrant boats sinking</a> (April 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Messenia_migrant_boat_disaster" title="2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster">2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster</a> (June 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Canary_Islands_migrant_boat_disaster" title="2023 Canary Islands migrant boat disaster">2023 Canary Islands migrant boat disaster</a> (June 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Cape_Verde_migrant_boat_disaster" title="2023 Cape Verde migrant boat disaster">2023 Cape Verde migrant boat disaster</a> (July 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%BChldorf_van_crash" title="Mühldorf van crash">Mühldorf van crash</a> (October 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_migrant_vessel_incidents_on_the_Mediterranean_Sea" title="List of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea">List of migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_migrant_vehicle_incidents_in_Europe" title="List of migrant vehicle incidents in Europe">List of migrant vehicle incidents in Europe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Maritime operations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frontex#Poseidon" title="Frontex">Operation Poseidon</a> (EU, 2006–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontex#Hermes" title="Frontex">Operation Hermes</a> (EU, 2011–2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Mare_Nostrum" title="Operation Mare Nostrum">Operation Mare Nostrum</a> (Italy, 2013–2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Triton" title="Operation Triton">Operation Triton</a> (EU, 2014–2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Themis" title="Operation Themis">Operation Themis</a> (EU, 2018–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Sophia" title="Operation Sophia">Operation Sophia</a> (EU Navfor Med, 2015–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontex#Poseidon" title="Frontex">Operation Poseidon Rapid Intervention</a> (EU, 2015–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Migrant_Offshore_Aid_Station" title="Migrant Offshore Aid Station">Migrant Offshore Aid Station</a> (NGO, 2014–2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proactiva_Open_Arms" title="Proactiva Open Arms">Proactiva Open Arms</a> (NGO, 2015–2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aquarius_Dignitus" title="Aquarius Dignitus">Aquarius Dignitus</a> (NGO <a href="/wiki/SOS_M%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9e" title="SOS Méditerranée">SOS Méditerranée</a>, 2015–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jugend_Rettet" title="Jugend Rettet">Jugend Rettet</a> (NGO, 2016–2017)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Migrant camps</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basroch_refugee_camp" title="Basroch refugee camp">Basroch refugee camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calais_Jungle" title="Calais Jungle">Calais Jungle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Lini%C3%A8re" title="La Linière">La Linière</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lampedusa_immigrant_reception_center" title="Lampedusa immigrant reception center">Lampedusa immigrant reception center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moria_refugee_camp" title="Moria refugee camp">Moria refugee camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Migrants_around_Calais" title="Migrants around Calais">Migrants around Calais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hotspot_camp" title="Hotspot camp">Hotspot camp</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Border barriers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Austrian_border_barrier" title="Austrian border barrier">Austrian border barrier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria%E2%80%93Turkey_border#Border_barrier" title="Bulgaria–Turkey border">Bulgarian border barrier</a></li> <li><a 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events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Khaled_Idris_Bahray" title="Murder of Khaled Idris Bahray">Murder of Khaled Idris Bahray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Geldermalsen_riot" title="2015 Geldermalsen riot">2015 Geldermalsen riot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Corsican_protests" title="2015 Corsican protests">2015 Corsican protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaults_in_Germany" title="2015–16 New Year&#39;s Eve sexual assaults in Germany">2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Ashley_Ann_Olsen" title="Murder of Ashley Ann Olsen">Murder of Ashley Ann Olsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatal_stabbing_of_Alexandra_Mezher" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatal stabbing of Alexandra Mezher">Fatal stabbing of Alexandra Mezher</a></li> <li><a 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selflink">2021–present Belarus–EU border crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Migration_and_asylum_policy_of_the_European_Union" title="Migration and asylum policy of the European Union">Migration and asylum policy of the European Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_response_to_the_2015_migrant_crisis" title="European Union response to the 2015 migrant crisis">European Union response to the 2015 migrant crisis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/European_Asylum_Curriculum" title="European Asylum Curriculum">European Asylum Curriculum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_Agency_for_Asylum" title="European Union Agency for Asylum">European Union Agency for Asylum</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asylum_shopping" title="Asylum shopping">Asylum 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data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Coast_guard" title="Coast guard">Maritime</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belgian_Coast_Guard" title="Belgian Coast Guard">Belgium</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cyprus_Port_and_Marine_Police_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Cyprus_Port_and_Marine_Police_racing_stripe.svg/20px-Cyprus_Port_and_Marine_Police_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Cyprus_Port_and_Marine_Police_racing_stripe.svg/30px-Cyprus_Port_and_Marine_Police_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Cyprus_Port_and_Marine_Police_racing_stripe.svg/40px-Cyprus_Port_and_Marine_Police_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" 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href="/wiki/File:Finnish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Finnish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/20px-Finnish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Finnish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/30px-Finnish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Finnish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/40px-Finnish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Border_Guard" title="Finnish Border Guard">Finland</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:French_Maritime_Gendarmerie_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/French_Maritime_Gendarmerie_racing_stripe.svg/20px-French_Maritime_Gendarmerie_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/French_Maritime_Gendarmerie_racing_stripe.svg/30px-French_Maritime_Gendarmerie_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/French_Maritime_Gendarmerie_racing_stripe.svg/40px-French_Maritime_Gendarmerie_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Maritime_Gendarmerie" title="Maritime Gendarmerie">France</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:German_Federal_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/German_Federal_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/20px-German_Federal_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/German_Federal_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/30px-German_Federal_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/German_Federal_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/40px-German_Federal_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/German_Federal_Coast_Guard" title="German Federal Coast Guard">Germany</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hellenic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Hellenic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/20px-Hellenic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Hellenic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/30px-Hellenic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Hellenic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/40px-Hellenic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Coast_Guard" title="Hellenic Coast Guard">Greece</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Icelandic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Icelandic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/20px-Icelandic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Icelandic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/30px-Icelandic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Icelandic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/40px-Icelandic_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Icelandic_Coast_Guard" title="Icelandic Coast Guard">Iceland</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Guardia_Costiera.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Guardia_Costiera.svg/20px-Guardia_Costiera.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Guardia_Costiera.svg/30px-Guardia_Costiera.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Guardia_Costiera.svg/40px-Guardia_Costiera.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Corps_of_the_Port_Captaincies_%E2%80%93_Coast_Guard" title="Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard">Italy</a></li> <li>Latvia <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Latvian_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Latvian_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/20px-Latvian_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Latvian_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/30px-Latvian_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Latvian_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/40px-Latvian_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/State_Border_Guard" title="State Border Guard">State Border Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_Naval_Forces" title="Latvian Naval Forces">Naval Forces</a></li></ul></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lithuanian_Border_Guard_racing_stripe.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Lithuanian_Border_Guard_racing_stripe.png/20px-Lithuanian_Border_Guard_racing_stripe.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Lithuanian_Border_Guard_racing_stripe.png/30px-Lithuanian_Border_Guard_racing_stripe.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Lithuanian_Border_Guard_racing_stripe.png/40px-Lithuanian_Border_Guard_racing_stripe.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="774" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_State_Border_Guard_Service" title="Lithuanian State Border Guard Service">Lithuania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maritime_Squadron_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Malta" title="Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta">Malta</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Netherlands_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Norwegian_Coast_Guard_Racing_Stripe.svg/30px-Norwegian_Coast_Guard_Racing_Stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Norwegian_Coast_Guard_Racing_Stripe.svg/40px-Norwegian_Coast_Guard_Racing_Stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Coast_Guard" title="Norwegian Coast Guard">Norway</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Polish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Polish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/20px-Polish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Polish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/30px-Polish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Polish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/40px-Polish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Border_Guard_(Poland)" title="Border Guard (Poland)">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maritime_Authority_System" title="Maritime Authority System">Portugal</a></li> <li>Spain <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Spanish_Civil_Guard_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Spanish_Civil_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/20px-Spanish_Civil_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Spanish_Civil_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/30px-Spanish_Civil_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Spanish_Customs_Surveillance_Service_racing_stripe.svg/40px-Spanish_Customs_Surveillance_Service_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Customs_Surveillance_Service" title="Customs Surveillance Service">Customs Surveillance Service</a></li></ul></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Swedish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Swedish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/20px-Swedish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Swedish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/30px-Swedish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Swedish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg/40px-Swedish_Coast_Guard_racing_stripe.svg.png 2x" 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title="Israel–European Union relations">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Japan–European Union relations">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordan%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Jordan–European Union relations">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Kazakhstan–European Union relations">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanon%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Lebanon–European Union relations">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysia%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Malaysia–European Union relations">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepal%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Nepal–European Union relations">Nepal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="North Korea–European Union relations">North Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Pakistan–European Union relations">Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestine%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Palestine–European Union relations">Palestine</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippines%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Philippines–European Union relations">Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Korea%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="South Korea–European Union relations">South Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syria%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Syria–European Union relations">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiwan%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Taiwan–European Union relations">Taiwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnam%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Vietnam–European Union relations">Vietnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemen%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Yemen–European Union relations">Yemen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Albania_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Albania to the European Union">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andorra%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Andorra–European Union relations">Andorra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Armenia–European Union relations">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Azerbaijan–European Union relations">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Belarus–European Union relations">Belarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faroe_Islands_and_the_European_Union" title="Faroe Islands and the European Union">Faroe Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Georgia–European Union relations">Georgia</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Georgia_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Georgia to the European Union">Accession negotiations</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iceland%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Iceland–European Union relations">Iceland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Kosovo_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Kosovo to the European Union">Kosovo</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liechtenstein%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Liechtenstein–European Union relations">Liechtenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldova%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Moldova–European Union relations">Moldova</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Moldova_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Moldova to the European Union">Accession negotiations</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monaco%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Monaco–European Union relations">Monaco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Montenegro_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Montenegro to the European Union">Montenegro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_North_Macedonia_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Cyprus_and_the_European_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Cyprus and the European Union">Northern Cyprus</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norway%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Norway–European Union relations">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Russia–European Union relations">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Marino%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="San Marino–European Union relations">San Marino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Serbia_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Serbia to the European Union">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Sovereign Military Order of Malta–European Union relations">Sovereign Military Order of Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Switzerland%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Switzerland–European Union relations">Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union%E2%80%93Turkey_relations" title="European Union–Turkey relations">Turkey</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Turkey to the European Union">Accession negotiations</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Ukraine–European Union relations">Ukraine</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Ukraine_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Ukraine to the European Union">Accession negotiations</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="United Kingdom–European Union relations">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_See%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Holy See–European Union relations">Vatican City</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oceania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Australia–European Union relations">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Micronesia%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Micronesia–European Union relations">Micronesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="New Zealand–European Union relations">New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Papua New Guinea–European Union relations">Papua New Guinea</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia%E2%80%93European_Communities_relations" title="Yugoslavia–European Communities relations">Yugoslavia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Special member state territories and the European Union">Overseas territories of member states</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microstates_and_the_European_Union" title="Microstates and the European Union">European microstates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_the_European_Union" title="List of the largest trading partners of the European Union">Largest trading partners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_Association_Agreement" title="European Union Association Agreement">Association Agreements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_free_trade_agreements" class="mw-redirect" title="European Union free trade agreements">Free trade agreements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_Sanctions" class="mw-redirect" title="European Union Sanctions">European Union Sanctions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li>†= Disputed state, may not be recognised as an independent state by some or all European Union members.</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Multilateral_relations_and_initiatives" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Multilateralism" title="Multilateralism">Multilateral</a> relations and initiatives</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8.0em;padding:0.35em 1.0em; line-height:1.1em; ;">Organisations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arab_League%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Arab League–European Union relations">Arab League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ASEAN%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="ASEAN–European Union relations">ASEAN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Europe%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Council of Europe–European Union relations">Council of Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_and_the_European_Convention_on_Human_Rights" title="European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights">ECHR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_and_the_G7" title="European Union and the G7">G7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_and_the_International_Criminal_Court" title="European Union and the International Criminal Court">ICC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Permanent_Observer_Mission_of_the_Organization_of_Islamic_Cooperation_to_the_European_Union" title="Permanent Observer Mission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to the European Union">IOC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union%E2%80%93Mercosur_relations" title="European Union–Mercosur relations">Mercosur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union%E2%80%93NATO_relations" title="European Union–NATO relations">NATO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_and_the_United_Nations" title="European Union and the United Nations">UN</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8.0em;padding:0.35em 1.0em; line-height:1.1em; ;">Initiatives</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/African,_Caribbean_and_Pacific_Group_of_States" class="mw-redirect" title="African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States">African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asia%E2%80%93Europe_Meeting" title="Asia–Europe Meeting">Asia–Europe Meeting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CARIFORUM" title="CARIFORUM">CARIFORUM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_Customs_Union" title="European Union Customs Union">Customs Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Partnership" title="Eastern Partnership">Eastern Partnership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_Community" title="Energy Community">Energy Community</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euro-Latin_American_Parliamentary_Assembly" title="Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly">Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Common_Aviation_Area" title="European Common Aviation Area">European Common Aviation Area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Economic_Area" title="European Economic Area">European Economic Area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euro-Mediterranean_free_trade_area" title="Euro-Mediterranean free trade area">Euro-Mediterranean free trade area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euro-Mediterranean_Partnership" class="mw-redirect" title="Euro-Mediterranean Partnership">Euro-Mediterranean Partnership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euronest_Parliamentary_Assembly" title="Euronest Parliamentary Assembly">Euronest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_Partnership_Agreements" title="Economic Partnership Agreements">Economic Partnership Agreements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EU_CBRN_Risk_Mitigation_CoE_Initiative" title="EU CBRN Risk Mitigation CoE Initiative">EU CBRN Risk Mitigation CoE Initiative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Neighbourhood_Policy" title="European Neighbourhood Policy">Neighbourhood Policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Dimension" title="Northern Dimension">Northern Dimension</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_for_the_Mediterranean" title="Union for the Mediterranean">Mediterranean Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stabilisation_and_Association_Process" title="Stabilisation and Association Process">Stabilisation and Association Process</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Administration_and_policies" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Administration and policies</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8.0em;padding:0.35em 1.0em; line-height:1.1em; ;"><a href="/wiki/Common_Foreign_and_Security_Policy" title="Common Foreign and Security Policy">Foreign and Security Policy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_Global_Strategy" title="European Union Global Strategy">Global Strategy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Neighbourhood_Policy" title="European Neighbourhood Policy">Neighbourhood Policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_European_Union" title="Enlargement of the European Union">Enlargement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Common_Security_and_Defence_Policy" title="Common Security and Defence Policy">Security and Defence Policy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8.0em;padding:0.35em 1.0em; line-height:1.1em; ;">Administration</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Humanitarian_Aid_and_Civil_Protection_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department">Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Directorate-General_for_International_Cooperation_and_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development">Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_External_Action_Service" title="European External Action Service">External Action Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_Affairs_Council" title="Foreign Affairs Council">Foreign Affairs Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_Representative_of_the_Union_for_Foreign_Affairs_and_Security_Policy" title="High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy">High Representative</a> <a href="/wiki/Josep_Borrell" title="Josep Borrell">Josep Borrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Parliament_Committee_on_Foreign_Affairs" title="European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs">Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_Policy_Instruments_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Policy Instruments Service">Foreign Policy Instruments Service</a></li> <li>Diplomatic missions <a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of_the_European_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="List of diplomatic missions of the European Union">of the EU</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ambassadors_of_the_European_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambassadors of the European Union">ambassadors</a>) / <a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_Belgium#Missions_to_the_European_Union" title="List of diplomatic missions in Belgium">to the EU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_Special_Representative" title="European Union Special Representative">Special Representatives</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8.0em;padding:0.35em 1.0em; line-height:1.1em; ;">Funding</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Instrument_for_Pre-Accession_Assistance" title="Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance">Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Global Europe">Global Europe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" 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<li><a href="/wiki/Director_General_of_the_European_Union_Military_Staff" title="Director General of the European Union Military Staff">Director General of the Military Staff/Director of the Military Planning and Conduct Capability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Director_of_the_Civilian_Planning_and_Conduct_Capability" title="Director of the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability">Director of the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_European_Union_Military_Committee" title="Chairman of the European Union Military Committee">Chairman of the Military Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Council" title="European Council">European Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_Affairs_Council" title="Foreign Affairs Council">Foreign Affairs Council</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Structure_of_the_Common_Security_and_Defence_Policy" title="Structure of the Common Security and Defence Policy">Structure</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><b><a href="/wiki/European_External_Action_Service" title="European External Action Service">External Action Service</a></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Command structure on the civilian/military strategic and operational levels (<a href="/wiki/Military_Planning_and_Conduct_Capability" title="Military Planning and Conduct Capability">Military Planning and Conduct Capability</a> within the <a href="/wiki/European_Union_Military_Staff" title="European Union Military Staff">Military Staff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Civilian_Planning_and_Conduct_Capability" title="Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability">Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joint_Support_Coordination_Cell" title="Joint Support Coordination Cell">Joint Support Coordination Cell</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Union_Intelligence_and_Situation_Centre" title="European Union Intelligence and Situation Centre">Intelligence and Situation Centre</a> (<a href="/wiki/Club_de_Berne" title="Club de Berne">Club de Berne</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crisis_Management_and_Planning_Directorate_(European_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crisis Management and Planning Directorate (European Union)">Crisis Management and Planning Directorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Security_and_Defence_College" title="European Security and Defence College">Security &amp; Defence College</a></li></ul> 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