Lukashenko's press secretary Eismont: there are 7 thousand migrants in Belarus
The Belarusian authorities have named the number of migrants from the Middle East who are in republics. The speech of the press secretary of the President Natalya Eismont was published on the Telegram channel “Pool of the First”.
“Today, there are about seven thousand refugees in Belarus, of which about two are at the border, in the so-called spontaneous camp. thousands of people. And from 200 to 500 people, according to available information, are also at the border, but spontaneously in other points. These are refugees whom the Poles tried to throw out of Poland by force after they had already penetrated there, “Eismont said.
Earlier, she said that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, in an interview with the Acting Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, said that the European Union should create a humanitarian corridor for two thousand refugees. For his part, he promised to facilitate the return of all other migrants to their homeland.
In early November, refugees from the Middle East gathered in Belarus on the border with Poland and Lithuania, trying to get into the EU. The West claims that the migration crisis was organized by Minsk.