MINSK. Aug 23 (Interfax) - Poland has proposed that United States citizens wishing to leave Belarus use the Terespol border crossing point, the Polish Border Guard said in a statement on Wednesday.
"In response to the U.S. embassy's urgent appeal for U.S. citizens to leave the territory of Belarus, the Polish Border Guard inform that they may enter Poland through the border crossing in Terespol [Brest on the Belarusian side of the border]," it said.
As reported earlier, the U.S. embassy in Minsk on Monday urged U.S. citizens to immediately leave Belarus in view of the closures of the crossing points on the border between Belarus and the European Union.
The embassy recommended on its official website that U.S. citizens use the still operational crossings with Lithuania and Latvia or leave Belarus by plane. "U.S. citizens are not permitted to enter Poland overland from Belarus. Do not travel to Russia or to Ukraine," the statement published on the embassy's official website said.
The embassy recalled Lithuania's recent closure of two checkpoints on the border with Belarus and noted that "the Polish, Lithuanian, and Latvian governments have stated that further closures of border crossings with Belarus are possible."