The United Nations Refugee Control Authority has warned earlier that the European Union -backed policy on the Belarusian border will violate international law
Poland is about to approve a controversial bill that refuses to accept most asylum claims from immigrants who arrive from neighboring Belarus. The policy, which was not agreed upon by President Doda yet, but was criticized that it violates international law.
In February, the Polish parliament approved a draft law that allows the right to apply for asylum on the borders of Belarus. This step aims to face what Polish officials described as Bassem “Hybrid war” Belarus and Russia tactics. Moscow and Mings denied the organization of the influx of immigrants to the European Union.
Speaking to correspondents on Friday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk indicated that the bill still needs to sign Doda. “It is not my job to rush to the president. Of course, I know the constitutional forces … I know he still has time. But we do not have time, because … every day we record 100, 150, 200 attempts to cross the border illegally,” He said.
According to RMF FM, was Duda “Very annoyed” By Tusk, he pushed it publicly. The port added, however, that the president “Often it confirms that he supports strengthening our eastern borders, so there will be a signature.”
In 2024, the European Union supported the TUSK plan to suspend asylum calls, with the European Council mentioning at that time “Russia and Belarus cannot be allowed … to misuse of our values, including the right to asylum and undermine our democracies.” Express support for payment to secure the limits of the external bloc.
However, in February, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned that the proposed legislation would violate international and European law, remembering that countries cannot restore asylum seekers somewhere “Where they will be at risk of persecution or serious harm.” Human Rights Watch also criticized the bill, on the pretext that he would do so “The formal nature of illegal and abusive recovers on the border of Poland with Belarus.”
The crisis began in 2021, when thousands of immigrants – especially from the Middle East and Africa – began crossing to Poland from Belarus amid tensions between Minsk and the West. The European Union imposed sanctions on Belarus due to the allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential elections, which is strongly denied by Minsk.
In January, the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko indicated that he had no intention of the Poland shield from the flow of immigrants. “We are not fighting immigration and people who want to live there [in the EU]… slapped my people with penalties, and to protect them? impossible,” He said at that time.
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