The EU Foreign Service announced that it was monitoring Russia due to the crisis in Poland countries against the background of the migration crisis on the border of Poland and Belarus. This became known from the words of the representative of the EU foreign policy Peter Stano, reports TASS.
The diplomat noted that the European authorities are studying, in particular, flights connected with the Belarusian side. “We look at the frequency of flights, how many there are, what flights, who flies, and so on,” he said. According to the agency, the list of countries that the EU is also monitoring due to the situation on the Belarusian-Polish border includes Syria, Morocco, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Iraq.
Earlier it was reported that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko for the first time gave a comment on the situation on the border with Poland and the aggravation of the migration crisis. According to the Belarusian leader, Minsk calmly resists the current circumstances and does not bully. According to him, any mistake by Minsk will involve Russia in the situation.
Prior to that, it became known that the European Union will toughen the visa regime with Belarus due to the migration crisis on the border with Poland and will suspend the simplified regime agreement that worked previously. At the same time, the decision of the European authorities will affect only the officials of the republic and will not affect the rest of the citizens.
The migration crisis on the border of Belarus and the EU countries began after Lukashenka threatened to weaken control over the flow of refugees and drug trafficking. This happened against the backdrop of yet another aggravation of relations between Minsk and the West.