Belarus starts distributing humanitarian aid to illegal immigrants on the border with Poland
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Belarus has repeatedly offered the EU to sit down at the negotiating table to discuss the migration topic, but received no response, complained Vladimir Makei.
Belarus did everything possible to reduce the flow of illegal migrants and returned about 2 thousand people to their homeland. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country, Vladimir Makei, in an interview published by on the site departments on Friday, 12 November.
“Just a month ago, we deprived 30 travel companies of the right to invite migrants from other countries. We detained about 700 violators at the border. and with the financial costs of the state, “said Makei.
According to the minister, Minsk has repeatedly offered the EU to sit down at the negotiating table to discuss the migration topic, but “we have not received a single answer to our proposals.”
Makei believes that “it was the European Union that initiated the breaking of a number of provisions of the readmission agreement, which allowed us to interact on migration issues.”
“They stopped financing projects related to the construction of shelters for migrants in Belarus, a number of projects to strengthen the border infrastructure and many others,” the minister complained.
As you know, on November 8 sharply the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border has worsened… Then from the side of Belarus several thousand people approached her, wishing to move to the EU. According to media reports, on the night of November 10, two groups of several dozen migrants were able to forcefully break through the border and penetrate into Polish territory in different places. All of them were returned to the Belarusian side.
Poland, Lithuania and Latvia reported on a sharp increase in the number of migrants from Iraq and Afghanistan, which are trying to cross the Belarusian-Polish border. According to Warsaw and Brussels, it’s a kind of hybrid war, arranged by Minsk because of the sanctions imposed against Belarus.
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