On Friday, he told the asylum seekers he would not play politics with their fate. Lukashenko said it was the EU that deliberately provoked a humanitarian crisis that needed to be resolved. Thousands of refugees and asylum seekers are stuck between Belarus and Poland, in what the EU has said is a crisis Minsk engineered by distributing Belarusian visas in the Middle East, flying them in and pushing them across the border. He added, “We won’t in any circumstances detain you, tie your hands and load you on planes to send you home if you don’t want that.” Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko visits a centre for asylum seekers and refugees near the Bruzgi border point on the Belarus-Poland border “If you want to go westwards, we won’t detain you, choke you, beat you,” he said as hundreds applauded.
“We won’t only hope,” Lukashenko answered. With no end in sight for the weeks-long crisis at the European Union’s eastern frontier, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has told hopeful asylum seekers that his country would not stop them from attempting to cross into the bloc.Īddressing a group on Friday, his first public appearance at the border since the start of the crisis, Lukashenko met asylum seekers and refugees at a warehouse turned into a shelter and told them they were free to head west or go home as they chose.Īn Iraqi teenager told Lukashenko she could not return home and hoped to continue on to Europe.
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