State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus

The State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus, GPK (Belarusian: Дзяржаўны пагранічны камітэт Рэспублікі Беларусь, ДПК; Russian: Государственный пограничный комитет Республики Беларусь, ГПК) manages the international borders of Belarus.

[2][3] The Border Committee was created by decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus on September 20, 1991.

On August 19, 1993, a law was adopted by the Council of Ministers decree on the official creation of the Border Troops of Belarus.

On 11 January 1997, President Lukashenko signed decree renaming the General Directorate to State Committee of the Border Troops.

[5] After the start of the Belarus–EU border crisis, the leadership of the State Border Committee, including its chairman Lappo, was included in the sanctions lists of the European Union,[6] the United States[7] and Canada[8][9] on December 2, 2021.

One of the buildings of the committee in Minsk