According to him, “human trafficking is organized directly by the Lukashenka family with third countries through commercial flights and organized tours.”
At the same time, Bon did not give specific names.
He noted that Lukashenka wants to “lure the EU into a trap”, saying later that these EU countries allegedly do not want to accept migrants and “treat them badly”, violating their principles.
The goal of Minsk is “weakening and division of the European Union,” Bon stressed.
Context:
This year the Baltic states and Poland faced the problem of illegal migration from Belarus.
In Lithuania, they believe that Lukashenka deliberately weakened control over the border on his part. The Lithuanian Defense Ministry stated that Belarus instructs illegal immigrants at the border.
On July 13, the Lithuanian Seimas officially recognized the influx of migrants from Belarus as hybrid aggression… except Lithuania, an emergency situation on the border with Belarus was declared in Latvia and Poland.
The Prime Ministers of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania Krisjanis Karins, Kaya Kallas and Ingrida Simonyte on 6 August called expand sanctions against Belarus due to illegal migrants. They condemned the attempts of the Belarusian authorities “to use illegal migration to exert political pressure on the European Union and its member states.” The prime ministers of the three countries noted that the deterioration of the situation on the EU border requires a “quick, tough and decisive” response to the “Belarusian regime.”
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on September 17 that there are more than 10 thousand migrants from the countries of the Middle East, which can be used to conduct a hybrid attack against Poland and Lithuania.
Due to the influx of migrants on the border with Belarus, the authorities decided to build a fence Lithuania, Latvia and Poland… Due to the migration crisis, control on the border with Poland strengthened Germany.
The Presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland Gitanas Nauseda, Egils Levits, Kersti Kaljulaid and Andrzej Duda issued a joint declaration during their meeting in Kiev on 23 August. In a statement migration crisis on the border with Belarus they called it “a politically controlled hybrid operation carried out by the Lukashenka regime” in which “defenseless third-country nationals are exploited.” Its purpose is to “divert attention from the more frequent violations of human and civil rights by the regime“.
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