MINSK, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Belarus on Thursday summoned Poland's charge d'affaires to Minsk to protest against Poland's statement on Tuesday on the alleged entry of unidentified "armed men in uniform" from Belarus.
Poland's accusations have no factual confirmation, and Warsaw uses "exclusively megaphone diplomacy, dogmatic statements for the media" to aggravate the situation at the border, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said.
The foreign ministry held that Poland wants to "raise the degree of tension" in order to receive additional funding for the construction of a separation wall on the border with Belarus.
Belarus denied the allegations of any provocations of border incidents, noting that the country does not question Poland's right and ability to defend its borders, and that any escalation in the region is completely unprofitable for the Belarusian side, according to the ministry.
Belarus also confirmed its readiness to resolve any issues with mutual respect and through dialogue, the ministry said.
The two neighbors have been caught in a spat in recent months amid a vast flow of illegal migrants from the Middle East and Africa seeking to enter Poland and Latvia and Lithuania from Belarus.
On Wednesday, Poland accused Belarus of staging an armed cross-border intrusion, saying that it had summoned the Belarusian charge d'affaires to protest over what it said was "a deliberate escalation" of the migrant crisis at the border. Enditem
