Foreign Minister of Belarus Makei: a number of Western countries are acting “brainless” in relation to Minsk brainless. ” Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said this at a press conference following a meeting of the collegiums of the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries, BelTA informs.
He commented on the situation with refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border and called the West's accusations groundless that that Minsk organized these flows of illegal migrants.
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“For some reason, the Mediterranean direction is working, the Balkan direction is working. There, as we know, migrants enter and receive appropriate privileges and necessary protection. And Belarus, for some reason, turned out to be a bone in the throat, “the Foreign Minister noted.
According to Makei, some European politicians are only capable of” swinging the ax of sanctions “without calculating the situation several steps ahead. At the same time, he called the migration crisis on the eastern borders of the European Union an artificial threat from NATO and promised to find an adequate response to it together with Moscow.
Earlier it became known that the EU was preparing to introduce new sanctions against Belarus from for the exacerbation of the migration crisis in Europe. It is noted that they will affect about 30 individuals and legal entities, including Foreign Minister Makei and the Belarusian airline Belavia.