Illegal migrants at the Polish-Belarusian border
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Warsaw does not recognize people at the border as refugees and will not let them into the country under any pretext, the Polish Foreign Ministry said.
Poland does not consider people stranded on the Belarusian-Polish border to be refugees. About this on Thursday, November 11, in an interview with a Russian radio station Echo of Moscow said spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry Lukasz Yasina.
According to him, in order to count on receiving refugee status, migrants had to get to Poland directly from the crisis regions. “The problem is that they all came to Belarus legally, received tourist visas from the Belarusian law, and this means that they are moving to the European Union from a safe state. This is a very important form. If they came from countries where unsafe events take place, they could get this legal document. It is illegal for tourists to cross the border illegally and receive refugee status, “said the representative of the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Yasina categorically stated that under no circumstances would Poland allow migrants from the Polish-Belarusian border to its territory. “According to international law, all we can do is watch and offer Belarusians our humanitarian aid,” he said.
The accumulation of migrants on the border of Poland and Belarus
Previously acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged to find a humane solution to the problem with migrants from Belarus aspiring to the EU. At the same time, the head of the current government of Germany pointed out, the European Union should be able to “defend its external borders.” In a telephone call on November 10 conversation with the President of the Russian Federation With Vladimir Putin, she asked to influence the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko in connection with the situation that had arisen. “People are used there, they are victims of misanthropic politics, and something needs to be done against this,” Merkel said.
In May, Lukashenka announced that Minsk would no longer deter refugees from further travel to EU countries. After that, the flow of illegal migrants increased sharply, first to Lithuania and then to Poland. Brussels accuses the Lukashenka regime of deliberately organizing the transfer of thousands of migrants to the EU borders in response to the sanctions that Europe has imposed against his regime.
The situation on the Polish-Belarusian border escalated sharply on November 8, when several thousand people approached it from Belarus, wishing to move to the EU. According to media reports, on the night of November 10, two groups of several dozen migrants managed to break through the border by force and infiltrate Polish territory in different places. All of them were returned to the Belarusian side.
A source: Russian service DW
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