(17 Oct 2024)
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Rome – 17 October 2024
1. Wide of Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, and Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorsky, entering conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Radoslaw Sikorsky, Polish Foreign Minister:
“I would like to stress that, contrary to the wording you have used, we have not suspended the right to asylum. Poland will continue to grant asylum in various places, to several migrants. And the person who is telling you this is a former asylum seeker. I am a former asylum seeker in the UK. What we are going to do is, just on the Belarus border and just for a limited time frame of 90 days, we want to reject the asylum request of those aggressive migrants.”
3. Wide of conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Antonio Tajani, Italian Foreign Minister:
“It seems that the military chief (of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar), it seems that he was killed. From this perspective Israel could consider its self-defence against Hamas’ terrorist action accomplished. I wish that the death of the leader of Hamas could lead to a cease-fire in Gaza."
5. Wide of conference
6. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Radoslaw Sikorsky, Polish Foreign Minister:
“We are still studying this proposal (Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ‘victory plan’) and we will support anything that will bring a fair and just end to this war. But (Russian President Vladimir) Putin has the capacity to put an end to this war by just making a phone call. Therefore, we will study Zelenskyy’s plan and we will talk about it only after having studied it.”
7. Various of Sikorsky and Tajani leaving after briefing
8. Various exteriors of Italian Foreign Ministry
STORYLINE:
Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorsky, on Thursday defended his country’s plans to suspend the right to asylum for irregular migrants.
It comes as Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, on Wednesday condemned the government’s contentious proposals ,calling them a “fatal mistake.”
"We have not suspended the right to asylum," Sikorsky said of the plans during a joint briefing with his Italian counterpart during a visit to Rome.
"What we are going to do is, just on the Belarus border and just for a limited time frame of 90 days, we want to reject the asylum request of those aggressive migrants.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government on Tuesday adopted the five-year plan that’s intended to strengthen protection of Poland’s, and the European Union’s, eastern border from pressure from thousands of unauthorized migrants from Africa and the Middle East that started in 2021. It doesn’t affect people coming in from neighbouring Ukraine.
The EU asserts that the migration pressure is sponsored by Minsk and Moscow as part of their hybrid war on the bloc in response to its support for Ukraine’s struggle against Russian invasion.
The plan says that in the case of a "threat of destabilization of the country by migration inflow," the acceptance of asylum applications can be suspended. The general rules of granting asylum will be toughened.
Human rights organizations have protested the plan, which failed to win support from four left-wing ministers in Tusk’s coalition government.
It still needs approval from parliament and Duda to become binding.
Duda has made it clear he will not back it.
During the briefing, Sikorsky also commented on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ‘victory plan’ that was outlined to European Union leaders on Thursday, telling reporters that officials were still studying the proposal.
"We will study Zelenskyy’s plan and we will talk about it only after having studied it.”
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