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The Suwałki Gap, also known as the Suwałki corridor [a] [b] ([suˈvawkʲi] ⓘ), is a sparsely populated area around the border between Lithuania and Poland, and centres on the shortest path between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast on the Polish side of the border.
To the military planners of NATO, the border area is known as the Suwałki Gap (named after the nearby town of Suwałki) because it represents a military difficulty. It is a flat narrow piece of land, a gap, that is between Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and that connects the three NATO-member Baltic States to Poland and the rest of ...
To the military planners of NATO, an area of the Lithuania–Poland border area is known as the Suwałki Gap because it represents a military difficulty. It is a flat narrow piece of land, a gap , that is between Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and that connects the three NATO-member Baltic States to Poland and the rest of NATO .
The Suwałki Agreement, Treaty of Suvalkai, [1] or Suwalki Treaty [2] (Polish: Umowa suwalska, Lithuanian: Suvalkų sutartis) was an agreement signed in the town of Suwałki between Poland and Lithuania on October 7, 1920. It was registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on January 19, 1922. [3]
Suwałki Region (Polish: Suwalszczyzna [suvalʂt͡ʂɨzna] ⓘ; Lithuanian: Suvalkų kraštas, Suvalkija) is a historical region around the city of Suwałki in northeastern Poland near the border with Lithuania.
Initially, Russia pushed for a right to have a military corridor, but Lithuania refused as it would breach the country's sovereignty. [4] The agreement was signed and the simplified transit mechanism began operating on 1 July 2003, with Lithuania fully regulating the rules of the transit. [ 4 ]
The Suwałki gap, southwest of the border, is a NATO vulnerability, which, if captured, will cut off the Baltic states from the rest of NATO. The territory of Crimea is de facto administered by Russia, thus de facto part of CSTO, though the vast majority of countries does not recognise Russia's annexation of the peninsula in 2014.
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