MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarus is ready for a solution from the European Union on whether or not the bloc will settle for 2,000 stranded migrants from the Belarusian border, President Alexander Lukashenko was quoted as saying on Monday by the official Belta information company.
Lukashenko mentioned Belarus would demand Germany takes within the migrants and mentioned the EU was not making contact with Minsk on the difficulty.
He additionally warned that Poland ought to think about the implications of performing on a menace to shut a border railway crossing, saying rail site visitors could possibly be diverted to run by way of a battle zone in japanese Ukraine in such a state of affairs.
The European Union accuses Belarus of flying in 1000’s of individuals from the Center East and pushing them to cross into the EU in response to European sanctions. Minsk denies fomenting the disaster.
(Reporting by Maria Kiselyova and Matthias Williams; Enhancing by Andrew Osborn)
