NATO restates support for Poland over Belarus migrant crisis

FILE PHOTO: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg waits before a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel (not in picture) at the EU headquarters in Brussels on November 15, 2021. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that the alliance was deeply concerned about Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's strategy of putting migrant lives at risk, offering Poland support.

"We are deeply concerned about the way the Lukashenko regime is using vulnerable migrants as a hybrid tactic against other countries and he is putting the lives of the migrants at risk," he said.