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DESCRIPTION: Poland, Lithuania discuss Belarus 'provocations'
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POLISH PRIME MINISTER CHANCELLERY HANDOUT
Suwalki Gap - 3 August 2023
1. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda arriving at news briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish Prime Minister:
“Russia and Belarus are increasing the pressure on the borders, increasing the number of their provocations, and we must be aware that the number of these provocations will increase. We talked about this with the president earlier, this is observed in Lithuania and we see it too. These provocations, this intrigue, this is the plotting of (Alexander) Lukashenko and (Vladimir) Putin and their aim is to destabilize, to sow chaos, uncertainty, hoping to show the weakness of NATO's eastern flank and all of our NATO partners."
3. Morawiecki and Nauseda shaking hands
STORYLINE:
Polish and Lithuanian leaders held an urgent meeting Thursday in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, warning that they expect to see more provocations from Moscow and Minsk.
The meeting came two days after two Belarusian helicopters briefly penetrated Polish air space, in what was viewed as a provocative move.
Both nations on NATO's eastern flank also are on high alert following the arrival of thousands of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries just across their borders in Belarus after an aborted mutiny in Russia in June.
“Russia and Belarus are increasing the pressure on the border, increasing the number of their provocations, and we must be aware that the number of these provocations will grow," Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at a news conference held alongside Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda.
They met in the Suwalki Gap, or Sulwalki Corridor, a sparsely populated stretch of land along the Polish-Lithuanian border which separates Belarus, an ally of Russia, from Kaliningrad, a heavily militarized exclave of Russia located on the Baltic Sea which is separated from the Russian mainland.
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Location (dateline)3 August 2023 - Suwalki Gap, Poland
