Paris is ready to consider strengthening measures against Minsk due to the aggravation of the situation with migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border. This was stated by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Ministry), reports TASS.
“We are agreed with Poland, who collided with the problem of artificially created Minsk migration flows,” said in the French department. In the Foreign Ministry of the Republic, Belorussia was accused of feeding migration traffic for destabilization of the European Union (EU).
The ministry noted that the French side seeks a coordinated way to protect external borders. In Paris, they pointed out ready to tighten measures against the Belarusian regime, citizens and institutions involved in the promotion of illegal migration.
previously became known that the European Union will tighten the visa regime with Belarus due to the migration crisis on the border with Poland. We are talking about the suspension of the Agreement on the simplified mode, which was previously valid. At the same time, the decision of the European authorities will affect only the officials of the republic and will not affect the rest of the citizens.
On November 8, a group of illegal migrants from the Middle East gathered at the Belarusian-Polish border and tried to overcome the border barriers. According to the government of Poland, the number of refugee crowd reached 3000-4000 people. In Warsaw, it was also noted that the illegal camp guarded Belarusian security forces.
The migration crisis on the border of Belarus and the EU countries began after Lukashenko threatened to weaken control over the flow of refugees and drug trafficking. It happened against the background of the next exacerbation of relations between Minsk and the West.