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Poland 'will stop evil threatening Europe': PM

22.11.2021 08:00
Amid a migrant crisis on the Belarus border, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said his country "will do everything to stop the evil threatening Europe."
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.Photo: EPA/TOMS KALNINS

"Ladies and gentlemen, I turn to you because Europe, our common home, is threatened," Morawiecki said in a social media message posted on Sunday.

"At this very moment a hybrid war is taking place at the Polish-Belarusian border, which Alexander Lukashenko, with the back room support from President Vladimir Putin, has declared against the entire European Union," Morawiecki added.

"For centuries Poland has been guarding our common home," he also said in his message.

"When invaders, tyrants and later totalitarian dictatorships had to be confronted we always stood on the front line," he added.

"I want to assure you: Poland will not yield to blackmail and will do everything to stop the evil threatening Europe," he also said.

He appealed to "all the people of the free world," saying that Poland, Lithuania and Latvia "need your solidarity and support today."

"Let us stand together, let us defend Europe," he appealed.

He described the migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border as "a political crisis created for a special purpose."

"The objective is to destabilize the situation in Europe for the first time since the end of the Cold War 30 years ago," he said.

"Over the weeks, we have provided ample evidence that it is the Belarusian regime that is bringing migrants to the border in order to transport these people then into Western Europe," he added.

"Today the target is Poland, but tomorrow it might be Germany, Belgium, France or Spain," he warned.

The months-long migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border has escalated in recent weeks, with Poland, the European Union and its member states, as well as NATO and the United States accusing Lukashenko of orchestrating the standoff in retaliation for Western sanctions against his regime.

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Source: PAP