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Chancellor Angelas Merkeles the government “has no intention” of taking such radical steps, which would also be questionable from a legal point of view, the minister told reporters.
In a letter to his Polish colleague Marjus Kaminski, Zehofer called for an increase in joint patrols along the German-Polish border in response to the number of adult illegal migrants arriving through Belarus.
Seofer said he had not yet received a response from Warsaw, but praised its “very strong initiatives” to stem the flow of illegal migration.
The Minister reiterated previous allegations by the European Union (EU) that the Belarusian authorities were transporting migrants from the Middle East and Africa to Minsk by plane and then sending them to the EU in retaliation for the sanctions imposed on the regime of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko for repression against the opposition.
Merkel will raise the issue at the EU summit this week, Seofer said.
He also stressed that “the key to solving the problem lies in Moscow”, given Russia’s enormous economic and political influence in Minsk.
As part of an extended hybrid attack by the Lukashenko regime, efforts have been made in recent months to send thousands of illegal immigrants to Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, most of whom have arrived in Belarus as tourists from Iraq.
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