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MINSK, 6 November (BelTA) – Ahead of the long weekend, 3,000 passenger cars are waiting to enter Poland, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus.
“The tense situation with vehicles waiting to enter the adjacent European territory persists on the Belarus-EU border. The border services of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland daily ignore the established norms for vehicle clearance,” the Belarusian border service emphasized.
The busiest route for trucks to enter the European Union is via the Polish checkpoint Kukuryki (Kozlovichi on the Belarusian side), with 1,490 trucks queuing. Over the past 24 hours, the Polish checkpoint cleared 64% of the normal number of trucks.
Some 790 trucks are queuing at the Lithuanian border checkpoint Medininkai (Kamenny Log on the Belarusian side). Its services processed only 14% of the usual traffic volume.
Some 360 trucks are waiting to enter the EU at the Latvian border checkpoint Paternieki (Grigorovshchina on the Belarusian side), where 26% of vehicles was checked out to enter Latvia.
A total of 3,000 passenger cars and 155 buses queuing to enter Poland near the border checkpoint Terespol (Brest on the Belarusian side), the only one available for passenger cars on the Polish border. The Polish checkpoint handled 33% of the normal number of vehicles over the past 24 hours.
