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Blackmail in response to sanctions: border guards leave border

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Blackmail in response to sanctions: border guards leave border

Belarus reduces the number of border guard troops on the border with the EU.

Exit border checks to become less strict, while entry control procedures will be strengthened.

Euroradio has learned it from press secretary of the State Border Committee Alyaksandr Tishchanka:

“The matter is that the EU sanctions are aimed to hit big companies which make substantial contribution to the budget of Belarus. How can it go without consequences? Maybe everyone got used we put equal efforts to exit and entry control. But now we are going to cut our efforts to control exit from Belarus in view of financial problems. This means we give the right to control entry to the EU to our neighbours.”

Alyaksandr Tishchanka adds Belarusian border guards do not refuse to protect the borders of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

“We cannot say their will be a 'hole' on the border,” he stressed. “But now, in view of the sanctions, we revise our priorities in favour of inner interests.”

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