Polish FM says Trump has the right to ban immigrants

Waszczykowski said no state has the duty to accept immigrants and that Trump was elected president, he has the right to impose the ban.

Update: 2017-01-30 08:02 GMT
Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski speaks during a panel session at the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos. (Photo: AP)

Warsaw: Poland's foreign minister has defended President Donald Trump's immigration order banning entry to people from seven mostly Muslim countries, arguing that every sovereign country has the right to decide its own immigration policy.

Witold Waszczykowski said "no state has the duty to accept immigrants" and that Trump "was elected president, he has the right" to impose the ban.

Waszczykowski made his comments on Sunday evening on Polsat News, a private television station.

Waszczykowski belongs to a conservative government that is strongly opposed to accepting Muslim refugees. Last year it played a key role in blocking a European Union effort to resettle refugees across the bloc.

Trump's immigration order has sparked protests at airports and the condemnation of many across the world as a human rights violation.

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