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Belarus president Lukashenko offers migrants who stay at border food, clothes
[AlAhram] Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday promised food and warm clothing to migrants colonists who opt to stay at the border between the ex-Soviet nation and Poland and won't return to their homeland.
Such a sweet, generous man.
Lukashenko made the pledge during a visit to a facility that accommodates migrants colonists at the border.

``My task is to help you, people in trouble,'' Lukashenko said, addressing thousands of migrants colonists during a visit to a facility accommodating migrants colonists at the Bruzgi warehouse. ``We, Belarusians, including myself, will do everything as you wish, even if it is bad for Poles, Latvians and someone else.''
Especially if it is bad for them, actually. The current president of Belarus is the soul of malice.
``We will work together with you on your dream,'' Lukashenko added.

Lukashenko, who has accused the EU of failing to meet humanitarian standards by refusing the migrants colonists entry, told them his government would do nothing to prevent them from reaching Europe.

"If anybody wants to go West -- that is your right. We will not try to catch you, beat you, and hold you behind barbed wire," Lukashenko said.

Lukashenko's visit comes after weeks of tensions at the border, where hundreds of people remain stuck. Since Nov. 8, a large group of people, mostly from the Middle East, has been stranded in Belarus at a border crossing with Poland, trapped as forces from the two countries face off against each other. Most are fleeing conflict or a sense of hopelessness at home, and aim to reach Germany or other Western European countries.

Lukashenko again called on Germany to accept migrants colonists.

German government front man Steffen Seibert on Friday strongly denied
No, no! Certainly not!
 claims by Lukashenko that Germany had agreed to take in 2,000 migrants colonists currently in Belarus.

``It's not true that Germany agrees to this,'' he told news hounds in Berlin.

Videos and photographs taken by local media outlets show the authoritarian leader of Belarus surveying conditions at the migrants colonists' crowded quarters. Russia's state RIA Novosti news agency reported that crowds of migrants colonists applauded Lukashenko on his arrival.

Lukashenko said that apart from about 2,000 people at the border facility, another 2,000 to 3,000 more migrants colonists currently remain in Belarus. He promised migrants colonists that the Belarusian authorities would help them return to their home countries _ but only if they want to.

``In no case will we detain you, tie your hands, load you on airplanes and send you home if you don't want that,'' Lukashenko said.

Lukashenko said that about 200 migrants colonists still manage to illegally enter the EU every day.

Over 170 people returned to Iraq's northern Kurdish-run region on Friday with another return flight expected later in the day. Last week, 430 Iraqis returned home after a failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
 to reach the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
The West has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of luring thousands of migrants colonists to Belarus with the promise of help to get to Western Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to use them as pawns to destabilize the 27-nation European Union in retaliation for its sanctions on his authoritarian government. Belarus denies engineering the crisis.

Up to 70,000 migrants could be in Belarus: Polish politician

[Rudaw] A Polish politician and former foreign minister told Rudaw that there could be as many as 70,000 migrants colonists in Belarus wishing to enter Poland, not 7,000 as previously claimed by Minsk, as he stressed that the authorities will continue to prevent migrants colonists from entering his country.

"We want to stop them [migrants colonists] at the Belarusian border. This is successful right now, because most have been unable to illegally cross the border, and we have [had] to force Belarusia’s [leader Alexander] Lukashenko to send them away," Witold Waszczykowski, who was Poland’s minister of foreign affairs until 2018 and is currently a member of the European Parliament, told Rudaw in an interview aired on Friday.

"[They] are not only 7,000 [migrants colonists], they are probably 70,000 because they were coming by planes this summer," he added.

Thousands of migrants colonists, mostly from the Kurdistan Region, have been stuck on the Belarus-Poland border in recent months, with hundreds of them returning via planes arranged by Erbil and Baghdad. The return process continues with another group of migrants colonists expected to return in the early hours of Saturday.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-11-27
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