{"id":494872,"date":"2025-11-04T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=494872"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:49:11","slug":"polish-interior-minister-confirms-readiness-to-reopen-border-crossings-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-interior-minister-confirms-readiness-to-reopen-border-crossings-with-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Polish Interior Minister Confirms Readiness to Reopen Border Crossings with Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Minister of Interior and Administration <b>Marcin Kierwi\u0144ski<\/b> confirmed his ministry\u2019s readiness to reopen border crossings with Belarus during the \u201cPiasecki\u2019s Conversation\u201d program on TVN24.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cPrime Minister <b>Donald Tusk<\/b> announced the opening of two crossings in the Podlaskie Voivodeship within the coming weeks. We are ready for this. We probably would have opened these crossings last week if not for repeated provocations involving Belarusians in Lithuania,\u201d<\/i> the channel quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Kierwi\u0144ski recalled that the issue had been discussed at the level of the prime ministers and interior ministers of Poland and Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI spoke with Minister <b>Kondratovi\u010d<\/b>, and in a gesture of solidarity with Lithuania we postponed this decision,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that on Friday <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> said that by delaying the reopening of checkpoints and siding with Lithuania, the Polish side had disrupted its agreements with him. Those agreements concerned the reopening of border crossings and the exchange of political prisoner <b>Andrzej Poczobut<\/b>, as well as Polish citizens accused by the Belarusian side of espionage.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that Poland and Lithuania could not unilaterally decide to resume the operation of border checkpoints, and that reopening the border required the establishment of dialogue and reliable implementation of existing agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s Minister of Interior and Administration Marcin Kierwi\u0144ski confirmed his ministry\u2019s readiness to reopen border crossings with Belarus during the \u201cPiasecki\u2019s Conversation\u201d program on TVN24. \u201cPrime Minister Donald Tusk announced the opening of two crossings in the Podlaskie Voivodeship within the coming weeks. We are ready for this. We probably would have opened these crossings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6909be0f7e080.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Interior Minister Confirms Readiness to Reopen Border Crossings with Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494872","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=494872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}