Morawiecki: Poland to call on NATO to strengthen Suwalki Gap

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has said that Poland will appeal to its NATO partners to strengthen the Suwalki Gap in the northeast of the country. The Suwalki Gap is a sparsely-populated area straddling Poland's border with Lithuania. Sandwiched between Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, it is regarded as a vulnerable point in NATO's defences as an attack across it could cut off the Baltic States. "We will continue to call on our NATO partners, most of whom are also EU members, to strengthen the gap," Morawiecki told reporters after the end of a two-day EU summit in Brussels on Friday.