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Migrants, EU towards new package of sanctions against Belarus

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“Today we will approve a new package of sanctions against the Belarusians responsible for this situation and we will broaden the model” of sanctions “to include other people, airlines and travel agencies involved in this illegal migrant situation”. This was stated by EU High Representative Josep Borrell before joining the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, recalling that the situation in Belarus will be reviewed at the current meeting.

“We will not talk about any military action,” he specified in response to a question from journalists. “Yesterday I had a series of phone calls with the Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian ministers, and also with the UN Secretary General to prepare the meeting – he added – I told the Belarusian minister that the situation is unacceptable and that it must be resolved by stopping the flow and flights of migrants. Among the proposed sanctions there is also a no-fly zone on the country.

Lukashenko: ready to send migrants back to their homeland

Tensions between Brussels and the Minsk government exploded after Belarus was accused of carrying hundreds of migrants arriving from the Middle East with Poland, urging them to cross borders with the EU. The initiative, denied by the Belarusian government, is considered a revenge by President Alexander Lukashenko against the “interference” of Brussels on his internal politics, targeted by the EU leaders for his authoritarian drifts. Poland, led by nationalist Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecky, has asked the EU to finance the construction of a wall that “defends” its borders from the influx of foreign migrants. Community leaders split over the hypothesis, finding a convergence on sanctions against the Belarusian leader.

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Lukashenko continues to argue that his executive “does not want border conflicts” and that the Belarusian authorities are doing everything possible to prevent the accumulation of refugees at the border. The country, he added, is ready to send migrants back to their homeland, “but they don’t want to return”. Previously Lukashenko had threatened to block the flow of natural gas from Russi to Europe by blocking the pipeline that runs within its borders.

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