>The situation of migrants on the border between Poland and Belarus is deteriorating significantly. Now Chancellor Merkel has appealed to the Russian president. He should use his influence.
In view of the dramatic situation of migrants on the Belarusian-Polish border, caretaker Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has asked Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to exert influence on the authoritarian government in Minsk. Merkel underscored in a telephone conversation with Putin on Wednesday that the instrumentalization of migrants against the European Union by ruler Alexander Lukashenko was inhumane and completely unacceptable, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said. Merkel had asked Putin to “influence the regime in Minsk.”
The Polish government and the EU accuse Lukashenko of deliberately flying in people from crisis regions in order to smuggle them into the EU. A large number of the migrants and refugees want to go to Germany. Lukashenko had announced that he would no longer stop the people on their way to Europe – as a reaction to Western sanctions against Belarus.
The situation at the Polish-Belarusian border is tense. Two larger groups of migrants broke through the border from Belarus into Poland, according to Polish media reports Tuesday evening. Numerous other people are reportedly camping in the border area on the Belarusian side.
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>The situation of migrants on the border between Poland and Belarus is deteriorating significantly. Now Chancellor Merkel has appealed to the Russian president. He should use his influence.
In view of the dramatic situation of migrants on the Belarusian-Polish border, caretaker Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has asked Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to exert influence on the authoritarian government in Minsk. Merkel underscored in a telephone conversation with Putin on Wednesday that the instrumentalization of migrants against the European Union by ruler Alexander Lukashenko was inhumane and completely unacceptable, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said. Merkel had asked Putin to “influence the regime in Minsk.”
The Polish government and the EU accuse Lukashenko of deliberately flying in people from crisis regions in order to smuggle them into the EU. A large number of the migrants and refugees want to go to Germany. Lukashenko had announced that he would no longer stop the people on their way to Europe – as a reaction to Western sanctions against Belarus.
The situation at the Polish-Belarusian border is tense. Two larger groups of migrants broke through the border from Belarus into Poland, according to Polish media reports Tuesday evening. Numerous other people are reportedly camping in the border area on the Belarusian side.