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Sick-out over wage demands by Polish customs officers

Belarusian foreign ministry expresses concern over traffic delays at Polish border




The Belarusian foreign ministry has expressed “concern” over huge traffic delays caused by a sick-out over wage demands by Polish customs officers, Belapan reports.

Personnel at Polish customs checkpoints has been reduced to just a few officers in the last few days, resulting in backups of thousands of trucks and cars.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Andrey Papow, spokesman for the ministry, said that the strike had “paralyzed the system of freight and individuals’ movement” at Poland’s Belarusian border.

“Reports of the physical and moral suffering of people stranded in kilometers-long lines at the Polish side of the border, including the lack of access to medical assistance, cause a particular alarm,” Mr. Papow said.

The official expressed hope that the European Union would meet its international obligations “in the sphere of the unimpeded movement of individuals and shipments through the external EU borders and prevent further damage to the interests of other countries’ people and economies.”

“We strongly urge the European Union to take all necessary measures to solve the problems at the Polish section of its border as soon as possible, including by sending representatives of other European customs services there,” the statement said.

Minsk invited the European Union to “create an efficient system of cooperation with Belarus’ customs service” to prevent the recurrence of traffic jams at the shared border.

The Belarusian and Russian customs services also have expressed deep concern about the situation in a joint statement.

According to the Belarusian State Border Committee, trucks lines were as long as 20 kilometers at the Polish side of the shared border on Saturday. There were about 300 trucks at the Kazlovichy customs checkpoint in the Brest region, twice as many as before the strike.

Recycling of parrots

The party of parrots withdrawn by military men Brest border-guards during attempt of their illegal moving from territory of Ukraine, is subjected to recycling.


As the chief of the Brest boundary control veterinary item Vladimir Kovalchuk, on January, 23 frontier guards has informed БелаПАН have transferred in veterinary item 277 of illicit birds on which there were no accompanying documents.

" The decision on recycling is accepted in view of an epidemiological situation developed in the world with the bird's flu. That parrots are potential distributors высокопатогенного a flu of birds of which people are sick also, and also other dangerous infectious diseases "

is important also, - has explained V.Kovalchuk.

It has noted, that, according to normative documents, in case of revealing on boundary check points of a veterinary cargo without corresponding documents it is transferred in boundary control veterinary item for the further decision of a question. In some cases the cargo is located on three-day quarantine. If for this time documents it are not given, solved the problem on recycling. In this case expectation was not meaningful, as the owner of parrots has not been established, V.Kovalchuk has told.

In the evening on January, 22 the unknown person on a bicycle near to village Lipinki of the Brest area which is in a zone of the responsibility заставы him tried to forward parrots. Alexander Zavidova. The smuggler has been found out in immediate proximity from the Belarus-Ukrainian border. Having noticed frontier guards, it has disappeared in a direction of Ukraine, having thrown a bicycle and bags in which there were cells with parrots.

Cruelty in relation to birds of authorities of Byelorussia does not surprise. Cruelty in relation to political opponents, tragical disappearance of politicians, absurd adjudications on cruelty became in Byelorussia a reality. And, parrots have reached. Could send them to Venezuela.

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