Poland's plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum are based on the assumption that neighbouring Belarus is seeking to push a large number of migrants towards the country's shared border, deputy Interior Minister Maciej Duszczyk says.

Poland plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a strategy to limit illegal migration amidst tensions with Belarus, which Warsaw accuses of channelling migrants across its border. "One of the elements of the migration strategy will be the temporary territorial suspension of the right to asylum,