3 years, 4 months ago

Lukashenko assails EU for refusing to hold talks on migrants

MOSCOW — The authoritarian leader of Belarus on Monday sharply criticized the European Union for its refusal to hold talks on the influx of migrants on the country’s border with Poland. “They haven’t even contacted us.” EU spokesman Peter Stano said the bloc has been “in touch with a number of Belarussian interlocutors,” adding that it is looking into the possibility of holding talks with U.N. agencies and Belarussian officials at a technical expert level on how to help repatriate those stuck in Belarus. It has received strong declarations of support from the EU, NATO and the U.S. A video posted Monday on Twitter by the spokesman for Poland’s security forces, Stanislaw Zaryn, shows Russian lawmaker Vitaly Milonov, on the Belarus side of the border, shouting sarcastic comments in Russian at Polish border guards. Lukashenko on Monday shot back at Polish authorities, accusing them of “trying to solve their internal and external problems by putting pressure on Belarus and casting it as a culprit for Poland’s problems.” He insisted the migrants have been heading west to reach relatives in Germany. but we will protect those hapless folks as much as we can.” Poland’s Border Guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska said there were over 300 attempts by migrants Sunday to get through the razor wire border fence into the EU.

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