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Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in Toruń on Sunday. Photo:

Political asylum a national remit, not EU law, says Polish FM

He said a proposed suspension of asylum rights would be reconciled with protection of dissidents.

A migrant stands on the Belarusian side of a Polish border barrier. Photo: Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Warsaw accuses Minsk of stalling over border crisis

Poland’s foreign ministry has spelled out the conditions it says Belarus must meet before talks can begin to solve the migratory crisis at the two countries’ common border.

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Polish foreign ministry slams ‘incomprehensible’ Belarusian response to diplomatic protest over murdered soldier

Warsaw will not play Minsk’s “games” over the death of a Polish soldier at the countries’ common border, the Polish foreign ministry has said following an “incomprehensible” and apparently evasive response by Belarusian authorities to a formal protest in the matter.

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Lithuanian border guard to be given heavy weaponry

Lithuanian border guards are to be equipped with heavy weaponry, the country’s interior minister announced on Monday.