France on Friday, November 12, called on Russian ministers to use Moscow’s ties with Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko to end the migrant crisis on Belarus’s border with Poland.
French Defense Minister Florian Parley and Foreign Minister Jean Yves Ledria met with Russian counterparts in Paris and “encouraged Russia to use its close ties with Belarus to ensure that [migrantu krīze] is being terminated, ”the Foreign Ministry said.
They condemned the “irresponsible and unacceptable behavior of the Belarussian authorities in using migratory flows to target a number of European Union (EU) countries”.
French ministers also warned Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Russia’s new threats to Ukraine’s territorial integrity would have “serious consequences”. French ministers also emphasized their concern about the deteriorating security situation in the border regions.
They reminded Russian guests of Russia’s commitment to “transparency of military activities” on the border with Ukraine.
As part of an extensive hybrid attack on the Lukashenko regime, efforts have been made in recent months to send thousands of illegal immigrants from Belarus to Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, most of whom have arrived in Belarus as tourists from Iraq.
The EU has accused the Minsk regime of seeking to avenge support for the Belarusian opposition and of sanctions against Belarus in response to last year’s violent crackdown on protests.
Addressing his country’s parliament on Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Matthew Moravecki has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being the true curator of the migrant crisis in Belarus.
“The leader of Lukashenko’s attack in Moscow is President Putin in Moscow,” the Polish prime minister said.-
– .
