Poland plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a strategy to limit illegal migration amidst tensions with Belarus, which Warsaw accuses of channeling migrants across its border.
“One of the elements of the migration strategy will be the temporary territorial suspension of the right to asylum,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday.
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“I will demand this, I will demand recognition in Europe for this decision. This is because we know very well how it is used by Lukashenko, Putin... by people smugglers, people traffickers, how this right to asylum is used exactly against the essence of the right to asylum,” he told a congress held by his liberal Civic Coalition (KO) grouping, the largest member of Poland’s coalition government.
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