Council of Europe: Give NGOs and SMEs full access to the Poland-Belarus border

His Commissioner for Human Rights Council of Europe, Dunja Mijatovi,, called today to de-escalate the situation in Poland-Belarus border while calling for humanitarian organizations and the media to be allowed “full access” to the border area.

“We need to find a way to defuse the situation,” Mijatovic said. And “we have to take a step back and think about what is happening on the European borders, why these people are living in a state of uncertainty and what can be done to stop this extremely dangerous situationThe Commissioner from Michalovo, a small Polish town near the border, added.

Access to the area near the border has excluded to humanitarian organizations and the media under Polish emergency rules imposed in September in response to the country’s unprecedented influx of migrants, AFP reports.

“It simply came to our notice then to change “immediately so that we can all do our job,” said the organization’s official.

She also criticized Minsk, saying that “what Belarus is doing and the way it treats migrants is completely unacceptable».

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