Belarusian President for Immigrants at the Border: “Return Home or Move to Europe”

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President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, Made his first public visit since the outbreak of the immigrant crisis on the Belarus-Poland border. During the visit, Lukashenko addressed the immigrants and said that his country would not prevent them from trying to cross into Europe or return home.

After concluding, a girl of Iraqi descent approached him and said she could not return home and hoped to find refuge in Europe. In response, Lukashenko said, “We are working to make your dream come true. If you want to go west, we will not stop you, strangle you or cripple you. We will not play a political game with your fate.”

Mr Lukashenko also blamed the EU for the crisis, saying he had “deliberately caused a humanitarian crisis to be resolved”. The Belarusian president’s accusations come after the union and Poland claimed the crisis was part of Minsk’s revenge campaign on EU sanctions in response to suppressing violent demonstrations against Lukashenko and his re-election to the controversial presidency.

Migrants in sleeping bags on the Belarus-Poland border (Photo: Reuters)

Recall, the EU has agreed to impose new sanctions in response to the border crisis. Also, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland deployed thousands of soldiers and police along the border to try and block the migration of immigrants. Lithuania said yesterday that it was considering closing the border crossing if migrants continued to try to infiltrate the country.

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On the other hand, estimates in EU circles in Brussels that the Poles are deliberately exaggerating in describing the conflict with the refugees in an attempt to drag Western countries into conflict with Russia. A source in the union claimed that “Poland has sent 15,000 troops to the border to assist its police, but it vehemently refuses to seek help from the European border protection agency ‘Frontex’, whose role is to protect the union’s borders.”

He added that “the ban on the media and NGOs from approaching the border area prevents a proper assessment of the situation of the people trapped between the Polish barbed wire fences and the military forces in Belarus and this is very problematic.” In Brussels, it is claimed that the Polish attempt to present “several thousand refugees as an existential threat to the security of Europe and the West is intended to drag NATO into the conflict.” The Poles stressed yesterday that the crisis “could last for years.”

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