Poland to temporarily suspend right to asylum after Belarus border tensions, Tusk says


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  • Saturday, 12 Oct 2024

FILE PHOTO: Migrants sit in the forest, after crossing the Belarusian-Polish border, near Grudki, Poland, June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) -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 channelling 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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