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Poland Offers Bulgaria Further Help with Border Protection

Kapitan Andreevo Border Checkpoint, June 17 (BTA) - Poland has offered to send more officers to help Bulgaria patrol its border, Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova and Poland's Interior and Administration Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told journalists at the Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint on the border with Turkey on Friday.

They arrived at the checkpoint together to meet with Polish police officers patrolling the Bulgarian-Turkish border as part of a Frontex operation.

Buchvarova highly appreciated the offer, saying it was a sign of understanding of the difficulties and challenges Bulgaria is facing and an expression of European solidarity. This is certain to help Bulgaria strengthen its position at the border and redistribute the available forces. The suggestion will be discussed and the need for more officers will be estimated.

Blaszczak said that his meetings and visit to the border further strengthened his conviction that the government of the Law and Justice Party made the right decision to support Poland's partners in providing border security rather than to take in migrants.