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Poland is in discussions with Lithuania and Latvia on whether to trigger Article 4 of the Nato treaty, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has told PAP.
The three states are dealing with a migration crisis on their borders with Belarus.
Thousands of mostly Middle Eastern migrants are now camped in Belarus by the Polish-Belarusian border, and there have been numerous attempts to breach the border fence.
Poland, along with the Baltic States, accuses Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian president, of deliberately engineering the situation to destabilise the EU.
Areas adjacent to Poland's border with Belarus have been under a state of emergency since September 2 and thousands of border guards, police and troops have been deployed to the area.
"We are discussing with Latvia and especially Lithuania about whether to trigger Article 4," Morawiecki told PAP. "It seems that it is needed more and more. It is not enough to publicly express our concern. Now concrete steps and the commitment of the whole alliance are needed."
Article 4 foresees joint consultations whenever any of the alliance states considers themselves threatened by a breach of territorial integrity, political independence, or security.
Nothing good can come from this.
The three states are dealing with a migration crisis on their borders with Belarus.
Thousands of mostly Middle Eastern migrants are now camped in Belarus by the Polish-Belarusian border, and there have been numerous attempts to breach the border fence.
Poland, along with the Baltic States, accuses Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian president, of deliberately engineering the situation to destabilise the EU.
Areas adjacent to Poland's border with Belarus have been under a state of emergency since September 2 and thousands of border guards, police and troops have been deployed to the area.
"We are discussing with Latvia and especially Lithuania about whether to trigger Article 4," Morawiecki told PAP. "It seems that it is needed more and more. It is not enough to publicly express our concern. Now concrete steps and the commitment of the whole alliance are needed."
Article 4 foresees joint consultations whenever any of the alliance states considers themselves threatened by a breach of territorial integrity, political independence, or security.
Nothing good can come from this.