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PROTEST * Poland - Truckers stuck in border jams threaten to block Warsaw
Polish truckers, fed up with massive queues at border crossings due to a protest by customs staff, threatened Saturday to block Warsaw and other cities in the country
Warsaw,Poland -AFP/BEING HAD Weblog project/bhppc.blogspot.com, by Adam Goodman(Pinsk, Belarus) -January 27, 2008: -- ... "If the government and the customs agents do not quickly agree we are ready to block Warsaw, Monday at noon (1100 GMT). Blockades in other cities could follow", the president of the Polish Association for Road Transport Employers, Boleslaw Milewski, told ... A large number of border agents have been missing from their posts for several days, taking holiday or sick-leave in a dispute over pay, and causing major queues at border crossings... So far two drivers have died stuck in queues, one of an apparent heart attack and the other when a fire broke out in his truck cabin... Queues for heavy trucks at the borders with Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad continued to grow on Saturday... In response, truck drivers blocked access to the Dorohusk border station along the Ukrainian border -- where the line was over 800 trucks long -- police spokesperson Renata Laszczka-Rusek told AFP...
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