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06.10.2021 WarsawMeeting of Deputy Minister Bartosz Grodecki with Olivier Onidi, Deputy Director-General of DG HOMEToday (6th October), Deputy Minister Bartosz Grodecki met with Olivier Onidi, Deputy Director-General at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs. The meeting concerned the situation at the EU's external border with Belarus. At the same time, an expert meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration and the European Commission.
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04.10.2021Deputy Minister Bartosz Grodecki and the Head of Frontex visited the Poland-Belarus borderToday (4 October), Deputy Minister Bartosz Grodecki and Frontex Executive Director, Fabrice Leggeri visited the Poland-Belarus border. Brigadier General Grzegorz Niemiec, Deputy Commander in Chief of the Border Guard, also attended the visit.
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30.09.2021 WarsawMinister Mariusz Kamiński met with Ylva Johansson, EU Commissioner for Home AffairsToday (30 September), Minister Mariusz Kaminski met with Ylva Johansson, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, to discuss the crisis caused by Belarus' hybrid actions against the EU Member States, primarily Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. In these actions, the Belarusian regime uses migrants instrumentally to destabilise and exert political pressure on these countries.
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30.09.2021Poland provided the ECHR with its position on the order for interim measuresYesterday (29 September) Poland submitted to the European Court of Human Rights its position on the ECHR’s ordering on 27 September of further interim measures in the case of R.A. and Others v. Poland.
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24.09.2021Polish-Lithuanian talks on cross-border cooperationBartosz Grodecki, undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Interior and Administration, and Arnoldas Abramavičius, Deputy Minister of the Interior of Lithuania, chaired the 20th anniversary meeting of the Polish-Lithuanian Intergovernmental Commission on Cross-Border Cooperation. The meeting was held on 23-24 September in Vilnius.
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22.09.20219th meeting of the Joint Polish-Flemish CommissionOn Wednesday (22 September), the 9th meeting of the Polish-Flemish Joint Commission was held in Warsaw under the chairmanship of Bartosz Grodecki, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Interior and Administration and Julia Bynens, Secretary-General in the Department of Administration and Foreign Affairs of Flanders.
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20.09.2021Minister Mariusz Kaminski: for Poland and Lithuania, protecting the borders with Belarus is an absolute priorityThe second Polish-Lithuanian intergovernmental consultations were held in Warsaw on Friday (17 September), led by Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, and Lithuania’s Prime Minister, Ingrida Šimonytė. As part of the bilateral talks, the head of the Polish Ministry of Interior Mariusz Kamiński met with the Minister of Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, Agnė Bilotaitė.
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16.09.2021Deputy Head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration at the Sejm on the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border–The Polish state has undertaken necessary and adequate steps to seal the Polish-Belarusian border. ‘The main objective of the Border Guard, supported by the Polish Armed Forces and the Police, is to prevent illegal border crossings’ said Deputy Minister Maciej Wąsik in the Sejm. The Deputy Head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration answered MPs' questions at the Sejm on the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border.
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06.09.2021The Minister of the Interior in the Sejm: We will defend the right to respect for the sovereignty of our state border integrity"We must effectively counter illegal migration, including in the interests of those people whom Lukashenko cynically exploits. If they do not enter the European Union illegally, if our Polish border is a hard border, this crisis will end", the Head of the Ministry of the Interior, Mariusz Kaminski, told the Sejm on Monday (6 September). After a debate, the Sejm rejected a motion to repeal the decree of the President of the Republic of Poland on the introduction of a state of emergency on the territory of parts of the Podlaskie and Lubelskie Voivodeships.
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01.09.2021Extraordinary JHA Council meeting in BrusselsOn 31 August, the Ministers of Internal Affairs of the European Union met in Brussels for an extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting. The talks concerned the impact of the situation in Afghanistan on the issues of international protection and migration and on the security of the European Union. Polish interests were represented by Deputy Minister Bartosz Grodecki.