NATO Restates Support for Poland Over Illegal Immigrant Crisis in Belarus

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gives a statement before a working lunch at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Nov. 16, 2021. John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) expressed concern on Tuesday about the escalating crisis on the European Unions’ borders with Belarus, offering support to Poland.

The head of the alliance said that Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko is putting the lives of illegal immigrants at risk by “instrumentalizing” them as a “hybrid tactic against other countries.”