The authorities of Poland: the construction of the towers at the border line with Russia is not connected with Ukraine
The decision of Poland on the construction of six towers on the border with Kaliningrad region is not connected with the Ukrainian crisis, said the official representative of the border service of the country, John Rokita (Joanna Rokicka) in interview the Internet-to the edition.
"As a community project and it is not connected with the Ukrainian crisis. We are building a tower only for migration monitoring. They are designed not to prevent any of the provisions of the current fall, " said she. In her expressions, the project is not fully funded by the European Commission, was agreed upon long ago, before the events in Ukraine."
An unnamed representative of the Polish foreign Ministry also told the publication that the project for the construction of the towers was agreed upon " in order to prevent cases of illegal border crossing, and is not associated with the current situation in Ukraine."" Traffic on the small border between Poland and the Kaliningrad region is large, about 7 million crossings of the green line from Poland and Russia in a year, " he added.
first it was claimed that six equipped for round-the-clock Supervisory control towers price 3, 5 million euros will be built on a 200-km stretch of the Polish-Russian border between the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of Poland and the Kaliningrad region. It is planned that the tower will serve to control and monitor the border.
The Polish-Russian border passes completely along the borders of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is the external border of the European Union. Travelers cross it in road crossings Grodno, Gregotti, Besedah and Goldap. Last year the Polish-Russian border crossing points was 3, 2 and 3 million poles, 3 million Russian citizens. In 2013, the land border was crossed by 2, 9 and 3 million poles, 2 million citizens of Russia.
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