During her visit to Poland, Merkel spoke about the flow of migrants through Belarus to the EU’s eastern countries – Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
“The call for the Belarusian side is to understand that vulnerable people from other regions are being used as subjects in hybrid attacks,” Merkel told a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Matthew Moravecki.
“I find it completely unacceptable to carry out such hybrid attacks using people,” the chancellor said, noting that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the issue.
These migrants should be supported by humanitarian organizations, and “the Polish side should be open to this,” the chancellor added.
Merkel said this was her last visit to Warsaw as chancellor, as she would resign after the upcoming German parliamentary elections this month.
She will go to Paris next week to meet French President Emmanuel Macron at his last working dinner.
A crisis has erupted on the Polish-Lithuanian-Latvian border with Belarus in recent months, as large numbers of migrants smuggled by the regime of Belarusian authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko try to retaliate. and brutal repression of opposition protests.
Minsk basically sends citizens from Iraq, as well as Afghanistan and other countries, across the border in the framework of the Lukashenko regime’s extensive hybrid war to create instability in the EU, explains Western countries.
