Permanent Representative of Belarus to the UN: we expect the EU to take the first step 
Permanent Representative of Belarus to the UN Valentin Rybakov Union (EU) to take the first step to resolve the migration crisis.
According to him, Minsk is ready for cooperation and dialogue to ensure security on the common border. “We expect the EU to take some first step, to show some sound pragmatism, to enter into dialogue with us, and thus we could start solving this problem by joint efforts,” Rybakov said.
Earlier, the diplomat said that Poland and Lithuania are using the situation with migrants in order to siphon money from the European Union, to justify their anti-immigrant policy and increase their own importance in the eyes of Western politicians.
Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Belarus Olga Chupris proposed to the EU start negotiations to build a roadmap for overcoming the migration crisis.
In early November, groups of migrants from the Middle East gathered on the border of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania and are trying to break through to the EU countries. Warsaw estimates their number at several thousand. The West claims that Minsk itself orchestrated this situation within the framework of a “hybrid war.” German Acting Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the involvement of the Belarusian authorities in what is happening.