Diplomat Polyansky: Poland's displacement of migrants to Belarus violates international norms norms of the situation unfolding on the border between Belarus and Poland. TASS writes about this.
They are driven out of the border line, criminally persecuted and beaten. There were many cases when Polish and Lithuanian border guards beat migrants and drove them to Belarusian territory
Dmitry Polyanskyfirst post-post-mission crisis of Russia at the UN p> The migration crisis on the border of Belarus and the EU countries began in the spring of 2021 after the president of the republic, Alexander Lukashenko, threatened to weaken control over the flow of refugees and drug trafficking. This happened against the backdrop of another aggravation of relations between Minsk and the West.
Since then, groups of migrants have been on the Belarusian-Polish border. They wander through the forests and try to penetrate the territory of Europe. According to the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland, Blazhey Pobozy, there are now from several hundred to thousands of migrants at the border, mostly men aged about 30 years. In total, the Polish authorities counted that up to 20 thousand migrants arrived in Belarus, wishing to cross the border and enter the European Union.
The situation worsened after two large groups of migrants managed to break through the border of Belarus and Poland on the night of November 10. Some illegal immigrants were brought back to the border line. The search for the rest continues.
The situation at the border
On the afternoon of November 11, Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said that the Baltic states and Poland refuse to accept new migrants from Belarus.
The Baltic states and Poland in any at least they will not accept these migrants. We will not do this
Artis Pabriksminister of Defense of Latvia
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the situation on the border a new type of war, and civilians and the media he considered the ammunition in this war. The government of the republic urgently increased the number of military personnel operating on the border with Belarus to 15 thousand people. And Polish President Andrzej Duda said that the Polish security forces are on full alert.
Who is to blame?
The countries of the European Union are confident that official Minsk bears responsibility for the crisis and are threatening to impose new sanctions. In particular, the Polish prime minister considers the events on the border to be political blackmail on the part of Russia and Belarus.
This is not a migration crisis. This is a political crisis provoked with the aim of destabilizing the situation in the EU
Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland
A similar position was made by Olaf Scholz, candidate for Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He called Lukashenko an irresponsible dictator and said that Lukashenko's migration policy “must and will have consequences.”
In addition, the European Commission said that the EU could impose sanctions on about 45 people due to the refugee situation in Belarus. A RIA Novosti source in the European department said that the sanctions list would include about fifty officials of Belarus. Their assets in the EU will be frozen, they will also be banned from entering the bloc's countries, and their visas will be canceled. These persons, according to the agency's interlocutor, will be Belarusian officials, but also people responsible for the movement of immigrants to Belarus.
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Guilty without guilt
Air carriers are also blamed for this situation – for example, the Russian Aeroflot, Belavia and Turkish Turkish Airways. Restrictions could be introduced early next month, according to Bloomberg. According to the publication, the United States and, possibly, Great Britain will join the sanctions.
In response to this, according to the representative of the office of the President of Poland, Jakub Kumoh, Turkish Airlines promised not to let the citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen on board their planes flying to Minsk. Holders of diplomatic passports will be an exception. At the same time, the airline itself has not yet commented on the situation.
Ways of resolution
The European Union (EU) asked Russia to use its influence on Belarus to solve the problem of the influx of migrants to the border with Poland.
I repeat our call on behalf of the European Union to Russia to use its influence on Belarus, close ties between the Russian Federation and Belarus in many areas, so that [President of Belarus Alexander] Lukashenko stops this activity
Peter Stanofficial representative of the European Union
In turn, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in favor of restoring ties between the countries of the European Union and the authorities of Belarus. The migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border was one of the topics of his telephone conversation with the acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to Putin, Brussels should restore contacts with Minsk in order to resolve the migration crisis on the border with Poland.