A local family stands in their field to watch as the Polish and Lithuanian president address a press conference following a joint visit of the NATO Multinational Division North East mobile command center near Szypliszki village, located in the so-called Suwalki Gap -- an 80-kilometer stretch of the Polish-Lithuanian border sandwiched between Kaliningrad and Belarus, in north-eastern Poland, on July 7, 2022. AFP PHOTO
A local family stands in their field to watch as the Polish and Lithuanian president address a press conference following a joint visit of the NATO Multinational Division North East mobile command center near Szypliszki village, located in the so-called Suwalki Gap -- an 80-kilometer stretch of the Polish-Lithuanian border sandwiched between Kaliningrad and Belarus, in north-eastern Poland, on July 7, 2022. AFP PHOTO

Szypliszki, Poland: The presidents of Lithuania and Poland on Thursday (Friday in Manila) visited their border's "Suwalki Gap" land corridor to dispel security concerns over the area known as the Achilles' heel of NATO's eastern flank.

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