{"id":494096,"date":"2025-10-30T10:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=494096"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:20:00","slug":"poland-to-coordinate-border-opening-plans-with-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/poland-to-coordinate-border-opening-plans-with-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Poland to Coordinate Border Opening Plans With Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland will coordinate its actions with Lithuania regarding the reopening of border crossings with Belarus, Deputy Interior and Administration Minister <b>Czes\u0142aw Mroczek<\/b> said in an interview with RMF FM.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister <b>Donald Tusk<\/b> announced plans to reopen the Ku\u017anica and Bobrowniki checkpoints in November. A day later, the Lithuanian government decided to close its border with Belarus until November 30, allowing only limited crossings for certain categories of people through the Medininkai checkpoint. Members of the Lithuanian government expressed hope that Poland would take coordinated measures.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI also want to put the dot over the \u2018i\u2019 when it comes to cooperation with Lithuania and its requests. Prime Minister Tusk clearly stated in Bia\u0142ystok that we were ready to make a trial opening, to take these positive steps in relations with Belarus. We were prepared to open two crossings last week, but precisely because of what happened in Lithuania, and because of Lithuania\u2019s statement, without any special consultations, we decided to act together and consistently on this issue,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mroczek, Interior and Administration Minister <b>Marcin Kierwi\u0144ski<\/b> had already discussed the matter with Lithuania\u2019s deputy interior minister during a meeting of the Baltic Sea countries\u2019 ministers in Gda\u0144sk. A conversation between the Polish and Lithuanian interior ministers is expected to take place today, followed by discussions at the level of prime ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Mroczek assured that the Border Guard and customs officials are ready for the reopening of the checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cOf course, we are maintaining these crossings in proper condition and are ready to send staff back there, especially from the National Revenue Administration and the Border Guard. We can carry out this operation within several dozen hours or a few days,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland will coordinate its actions with Lithuania regarding the reopening of border crossings with Belarus, Deputy Interior and Administration Minister Czes\u0142aw Mroczek said in an interview with RMF FM. On Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced plans to reopen the Ku\u017anica and Bobrowniki checkpoints in November. A day later, the Lithuanian government decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/69031fbda8ccc.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Poland to Coordinate Border Opening Plans With Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}