The Seimas of Poland supported the introduction of a state of emergency on the territories bordering with Belarus.

This decision was previously made by the President of the Republic due to the situation with the influx of illegal migrants.

“Not having received an unconditional majority of votes, the Seim did not reject the orders of the President of Poland Andrzej Duda regarding the introduction of a state of emergency on the border strip with Belarus,” the Sejm said in a message published on its official Twitter.

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📍 # Sejm wobec nieuzyskania bezwzględnej większości głosów nie uchylił rozporządzenia orzporządzenia @ prezyjpldent

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- Sejm RP🇵🇱 (@KancelariaSejmu) September 6, 2021

As previously explained by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland Mariusz Kamiński, the state of emergency will affect 115 settlements in Podlaskie and 68 in the Lubelskie Voivodeships.

Excursions, demonstrations and other public events will be prohibited in these territories.

According to the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, thanks to this, the Polish authorities will be able to ensure the quality of border protection and suppress the "aggressive" activities and "provocations" allegedly carried out by Minsk.

At the same time, Warsaw places the blame for the migration crisis on Russia.

As Morawiecki said, speaking at the Diet on September 6, allegedly in Moscow and Minsk "scenarios have already been written that pose a threat" to the sovereignty and security of the Polish state.

According to him, Poland in the east is dealing "with a provocation on a large scale in terms of an attempt to transfer tens of thousands of migrants across the Polish border."

“This is much more than a diplomatic conflict.

This is an attempt to violate the integrity of the Polish state, ”he stressed.

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- Sejm RP🇵🇱 (@KancelariaSejmu) September 6, 2021

Morawiecki also said that the protection of Polish borders "should be something natural and based on the consensus of all political forces."

According to him, the decision to impose a state of emergency will help to better ensure security and greater comfort for "employees who protect" the Polish border.

Accusatory rhetoric

It should be noted that this is not the first time that Warsaw has accused Minsk and Moscow of provoking the migration crisis.

Thus, on August 21, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaschak called the influx of illegal immigrants on the Polish-Belarusian border "a dirty game of Lukashenka and the Kremlin."

He wrote about this on his Twitter, adding to the post photos of the damaged barbed wire fence.

Blaschak said that this is "also the result of the activities of the Belarusian special services."

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, responded to the Polish Minister of Defense in her Telegram channel, calling his words another "attack of Warsaw's Russophobia", moreover, "clinical."

She recalled that several dozen illegal immigrants ended up on the Polish-Belarusian border.

At the same time, from 2015 to 2020, about 5.8 million migrants moved to European countries, mainly from the Middle East and North Africa, Zakharova said, citing data from the United Nations Population Fund.

“And the Polish contribution to these statistics is the most direct,” she said.

- Attention, a question: when and how will Warsaw characterize its games and NATO games that provoked an unprecedented migration crisis and the intercontinental exodus of peoples?

However, Belarus is under attack most of all from Warsaw.

The Polish authorities have repeatedly emphasized that it is Minsk that is to blame for what is happening on the border.

The fact that the Belarusian side is allegedly provoking a migration crisis was announced by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, Marcin Pshidach, on the air of the TVN24 channel on 19 August.

He called it Lukashenka's "political operation".

According to the Polish minister, Belarus allegedly cynically uses illegal migrants as a human shield and "an instrument of political pressure on Warsaw."

A few days later, Pshidach, in an interview with RMF FM radio, announced the import of new illegal immigrants from the Middle East into Belarus, who are then allegedly sent to the borders of Lithuania and Poland.

Pshidach believes that this is how Lukashenka supposedly wants to achieve destabilization of the situation in the Polish Republic.

On August 30, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland called the situation with the influx of migrants on the border with Belarus "revenge" of Minsk to Warsaw and Vilnius.

According to the minister, Lukashenka allegedly intends to initiate a new large-scale migration crisis near the borders of the European Union in order to “harm Poland”, Lithuania and the entire EU.

The President of Belarus denies this kind of accusation.

He does not hide the fact that Minsk will no longer restrain the flow of illegal immigrants to the EU countries, since due to the sanctions restrictions of the West, the republic has “neither money nor strength” for this.

However, Lukashenko believes that it was Poland that “staged a border conflict on the border, violating the state border” of Belarus.

He explained that migrants, mostly Afghans, are really going through the territory of the republic to the West, which has promised to accept them.

  • Polish-Belarusian border

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“What the Poles did: they captured, you cannot say otherwise, about 50 people on the territory of Poland, who, as they admitted, went to Germany,” Lukashenka explained on August 23 during an extraordinary session of the CSTO Collective Security Council.

“And under the threat of weapons, shooting over their heads, they pushed them to the border with Belarus.”

Lukashenka added that for several days the "poor fellows have been there" without water, food and in the open air.

“You have heard and seen many facts.

At least, the whole world saw it, but the West is silent, as they are sick, pregnant, half-dead people, and sometimes the dead are thrown to the border with Belarus, returning them back.

These are their promises, their policies, ”the Belarusian leader said.

- They lost this war (in Afghanistan. -

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) (and they must admit it) and fled cowardly from there.

But these are their problems.

But what have we got to do with it?

Therefore, indeed, this problem is being shifted onto our shoulders. "

"Shift responsibility"

As the deputy director of the Institute of History and Politics of the Moscow State Pedagogical University Vladimir Shapovalov noted, the introduction of a state of emergency in Poland due to the situation around migrants is evidence of Warsaw's inability to solve this problem.

“The Polish authorities are not coping with the crisis situation that has arisen at the border.

And the question arises of what the taxpayers of the republic pay money for, if only at the very beginning of the migration crisis the system fails and leads to serious negative consequences, "the expert said in an interview with RT.

Shapovalov believes that the state of emergency will not help the Poles much to solve the migration problem, but it will allow them to "completely discard discussions about human rights and commit violent actions against migrants in full force."

“The country, which positions itself as almost the first democracy in Europe, behaves absolutely undemocratic, using violence against migrants.

And it immediately becomes clear that all these statements about human rights are nothing more than a hypocritical mask behind which there is another situation in which law enforcement officers do not stand on ceremony with people in need of help.

This is extremely inhuman behavior.

Moreover, it is observed not only in Poland, but also in many other European countries, ”the analyst said.

At the same time, Warsaw continues to shift the blame for the migration crisis onto Moscow and Minsk in order to “disguise its inappropriate behavior,” Shapovalov noted.

“The Polish authorities are trying to shift the responsibility onto Russia and Belarus, unreasonably declaring them to be the culprits of what is happening.

However, this situation has one explanation - the inability of the Polish authorities to solve their own problems, ”the expert said.

As Shapovalov emphasized, given the scale of the problems that are now observed in Afghanistan due to the actions of the West, in particular the rapid withdrawal of US and NATO troops, the Polish authorities will not be able to regulate the impending colossal wave of Afghan refugees, and even by introducing a state of emergency.

  • Migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border

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A similar opinion in a conversation with RT was expressed by Vladimir Olenchenko, a senior researcher at the Center for European Studies at the IMEMO RAS.

According to him, the incompetence of the Polish authorities and law enforcement officers led to the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.

“Warsaw demonstrates, including through the introduction of a state of emergency, that it is not ready to respond promptly and adequately to the difficulties that have arisen.

This situation has clearly unsettled the Poles, and now they do not know what to do with all this.

The state of emergency, of course, will allow them to impose curfews in the border areas and strengthen the verification of documents, but will not help solve the root of the problem.

They will not give Poland the opportunity to resolve the situation and their so often-voiced accusations against Moscow and Minsk, which in fact are not supported by anything, "the analyst concluded.