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Controversial Migration: This is how Lukashenko's secret weapon 'threatens to cause a crisis in the Union Israel today

2021-10-21T13:10:49.379Z


The regime in Belarus sends thousands of immigrants from Iraq and Syria towards the border with Poland and the Baltic states • Instead of placing a unified front in front of Minsk's policy, Lukashenko watches with pleasure the EU countries quarrel among themselves


At the end of a meeting of European foreign ministers earlier this week in Luxembourg, the European High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Joseph Burrell, described himself as having a conversation with Iraqi government officials in early September during a rare visit to Baghdad. "I had to convince the Iraqis that it was strange that suddenly hundreds of Iraqis wanted to spend a holiday in Belarus," Burrell told reporters. There is traffic of people, there is a runway, there is a plane, there are people who sell tickets and people who buy them and there are visas. Everything is fine'. In the end, they realized that everything was wrong. Who turn poor people into weapons and make them believe that if they travel to Minsk they will have free access to EU countries. When they (the Iraqis) understood the situation, and there were also people killed in clashes on the borders (between Belarus and its neighbors), they banned the continuation of flights (to Belarus). Thus, the Iraqi route was closed, but other routes appeared. There is a long list of countries from which there is an influx of people flying to Minsk,And from Minsk are transferred to the borders of Belarus (with the European Union) '.

There is nothing strange about the "tourist movement" accelerating destinations across the Middle East and Africa towards Belarus, which has intensified in recent months. Belarus' regime understands what other troubled EU neighbors, including Turkey, realized years ago: There is a miracle formula for creating pressure on the EU - creating an influx of illegal immigrants flooding EU borders, creating a "humanitarian crisis" and forcing the EU The European found ways to absorb the masses of "refugees" or pay the troubled countries in various ways to prevent the continued arrival of illegal immigrants. Turkey received billions from the union after making a significant contribution to the creation of the "refugee crisis" in 2015. Alexander Lukashenko, the ruler of Belarus, will be content to lift the sanctions imposed on his country by the European Union. Thus, his regime organized a new "refugee crisis" that threatened the European Union - this time not from the south but from the east. Immigrants from Middle Eastern and African countries,Who have the means to pay for their smuggling to the EU, get tourist visas to Belarus. Once in Minsk, they are transferred to the border areas of Belarus with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, where they cross the border in an organized or independent manner. If they have succeeded in crossing the border into EU territory, these infiltrators are faced with several options: some are transported by smuggling networks in trucks or vehicles to the border with Germany. Others contact "humanitarian organizations" whose representatives are running a race against time against local security authorities, trying to locate the infiltrators ahead of time and providing them with the assistance needed to evade arrest and deportation back to Belarus.Some are transported by smuggling networks in trucks or vehicles to the border with Germany. Others contact "humanitarian organizations" whose representatives are running a race against time against local security authorities, trying to locate the infiltrators ahead of time and providing them with the assistance needed to evade arrest and deportation back to Belarus.Some are transported by smuggling networks in trucks or vehicles to the border with Germany. Others contact "humanitarian organizations" whose representatives are running a race against time against local security authorities, trying to locate the infiltrators ahead of time and providing them with the assistance needed to evade arrest and deportation back to Belarus.

Demonstration for the rights of immigrants in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, Photo: AFP

The conservative government in Warsaw has identified in advance the organized influx of refugees from Belarus. As early as August, a barbed wire fence was erected along the long border between the two countries, intended to be a primary barrier to Iraqi, Syrian, Afghan, Iranian and African infiltrators. In addition, thousands of soldiers and police officers will reinforce the Border Police. From January to September this year, the intrusion of over 9,200 illegal immigrants was prevented, most of whom - 8,000 were arrested in August and September. There is no data on the number of infiltrators who managed to cross the border. Last week in Warsaw, the lower house of parliament approved a plan formulated by the government to build a 400 km long border wall between Poland and Belarus at a cost of 350 million euros. The wall will also be equipped with advanced electronic equipment, which will allow anyone to enter the area within 200 meters of the wall. Approval for the construction of the wall now passes to the Polish Senate, which is controlled by the opposition. Will the Polish opposition use such a sensitive issue to clash with the government?

The wall initiative will present the Polish opposition with a difficult dilemma: on the one hand, it is linked to political bodies, which accuse the Polish government of "inhumanity" in its treatment of "asylum seekers." On the other hand, it is aware of the great sensitivity that exists among the Polish public to the issue of illegal immigration, even if most of the infiltrators are not interested in staying in Poland, but continue west to Germany. If the wall initiative passes in the Senate, the EU will be faced with its own dilemma: the Polish government wants the EU to fund a significant part of the construction of the wall, as part of a policy of fortifying the Union's external borders. The EU, for its part, is interested in halting the infiltration route from Belarus, but at the same time is considering imposing economic sanctions on Poland due to the growing conflict between Warsaw and Brussels over the issue of national sovereignty. Poland's Constitutional Court has recently ruled that the EU legal system has no authority to interfere in Poland's sovereign legal affairs. In view of the expected establishment of a center-left government in Germany,Led by the Social Democrats, the conservative Polish government is expected to find itself facing increasing pressure from the EU, also on immigration issues. Poland was one of the member states of the Union, which vehemently refused to accept in its territory a quota of "refugees" from those who came to the EU following the "refugee crisis" and the policy of opening borders led by the outgoing Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Now there is criticism from the Social Democrats in the EU countries who accuse Poland of "inhumane" treatment of infiltrators from Belarus and preventing the granting of asylum seekers status from those infiltrators in accordance with the relevant EU treaty. This Convention obliges the first country to which "asylum seekers" come to take responsibility. In other words, there is a greater chance that Poland will be obliged to accept "asylum seekers" contrary to its stated position in exchange for receiving aid money from the Union.Who firmly refused to accept in their territory a quota of "refugees" from those who came to the European Union following the "refugee crisis" and the policy of opening borders led by the outgoing Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Now there is criticism from the Social Democrats in the EU countries who accuse Poland of "inhumane" treatment of infiltrators from Belarus and preventing the granting of asylum seekers status from those infiltrators in accordance with the relevant EU treaty. This Convention obliges the first country to which "asylum seekers" come to take responsibility. In other words, there is a greater chance that Poland will be obliged to accept "asylum seekers" contrary to its stated position in exchange for receiving aid money from the Union.Who vehemently refused to accept in their territory a quota of "refugees" from those who came to the European Union following the "refugee crisis" and the policy of opening borders led by the outgoing Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Now there is criticism from the Social Democrats in the EU countries who accuse Poland of "inhumane" treatment of infiltrators from Belarus and preventing the granting of asylum seekers status from those infiltrators in accordance with the relevant EU treaty. This Convention obliges the first country to which "asylum seekers" come to take responsibility. In other words, there is a greater chance that Poland will be obliged to accept "asylum seekers" contrary to its stated position in exchange for receiving aid money from the Union.Criticism has already been voiced by the Social Democrats in the EU member states accusing Poland of "inhumane" treatment of infiltrators from Belarus and of denying asylum seekers status to those infiltrators in accordance with the relevant EU treaty. This Convention obliges the first country to which "asylum seekers" come to take responsibility. In other words, there is a greater chance that Poland will be obliged to accept "asylum seekers" contrary to its stated position in exchange for receiving aid money from the Union.Criticism has already been voiced by the Social Democrats in the EU member states accusing Poland of "inhumane" treatment of infiltrators from Belarus and of denying asylum seekers status to those infiltrators in accordance with the relevant EU treaty. This Convention obliges the first country to which "asylum seekers" come to take responsibility. In other words, there is a greater chance that Poland will be obliged to accept "asylum seekers" contrary to its stated position in exchange for receiving aid money from the Union.

Policewomen in Germany alongside Afghan immigrants who arrived via Belarus, Photo: AP

In Germany, the new influx of infiltrators from the east is already well felt. The eastern provinces, which are close to the border with Poland, report a shortage of space in the centers for the absorption of "asylum seekers." The incumbent German government still suggested that the Poles conduct joint patrols along the joint border between the two countries, in order to locate infiltrators and smuggling networks. The German interior minister, the conservative Horst Zhofer, made it clear that there was no intention to close the border with Poland, but in some areas criticism from the German side of the border crossing was heightened. The Poles did not respond to the German proposal regarding joint patrols. Warsaw is furious at Germany's role in the construction of gas pipelines from Russia, which were built in the Baltic Sea and bypasses the previous gas supply route spoke through Ukraine and Poland. The Poles accuse the Germans of surrender and subservience to Moscow. Beyond that, the Poles want to first ensure the blocking of their border with Belarus, before they turn to helping the Germans solve their problems.

Lukashenko watches with great pleasure the entanglement of the Europeans among themselves. At the end of September, he accused the EU of creating a humanitarian crisis in the coming winter in his country's border areas, if the "refugees" were left there to freeze and not join the EU. The Belarusian ruler's Machiavellian move is in fact also directed against the opposition in his country: Since the falsification of the results of the Belarusian presidential election and the escalation of repression against his regime in the summer of 2020, many opposition activists have fled to neighboring EU countries - Poland and the Baltic states. Blocking the border from the European side, at the expense of the Europeans, will help the Lukashenko regime imprison the opposition in Belarus and narrow its steps. The EU is now considering imposing further sanctions on Belarus and those involved in the new infiltration route - including airlines, travel agencies, but also senior Minsk regime officials. But, time does not necessarily work in favor of Europeans and winter is already around the corner. Testimony of infiltrators regarding their plight on the Belarusian side,Photographs of "refugees" freeze and reports of the dead - which are already beginning to accumulate, create a new and very problematic reality.

Source: israelhayom

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