WARSAW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd August, 2018) Warsaw is not taking any action that deliberately targets immigrants but does stress its opposition to the phenomenon of forced migration, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Wednesday.
"In Poland, there is no anti-immigrant action. We just don't agree to people being forcibly brought to us and that's all," Duda told a press conference in New Zealand, as quoted by the PAP news agency.
Poland is only against migrants being involuntarily brought to the country and made to stay in it, the president explained.
Duda also stressed that around one million Ukrainian migrants were residing and working in Poland.
Poland along with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Austria have been criticizing the open-door migration policy initially introduced by a number of core EU member states as well as the bloc's system of mandatory migrant relocation quotas.
In December 2017, the European Commission filed lawsuits with the European Court of Justice against the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, challenging their reluctance to host refugees in accordance with established quotas.
