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Green top politicians Baerbock and Habeck
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Thousands of migrants have been waiting for days in winter temperatures on the border between Belarus and Poland to get to the EU.
Warsaw has stationed thousands of soldiers on the border to prevent the barbed wire from breaking through.
Green leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck want to prevent potential migrants from entering via Belarus with a targeted information campaign.
"Germany and the EU should immediately start an awareness campaign in their countries of origin and warn people of Lukashenko's perfidious enticements so that they do not get on the plane to Minsk," demanded the two party leaders in a joint statement to the German press agency on Wednesday .
The government in Warsaw and the EU are accusing the authoritarian Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko of deliberately flying in people, many of whom come from crisis regions, in order to smuggle them into the EU.
Most of the migrants and refugees want to go to Germany.
The two Green chairmen see the responsibility for the tightening in Belarus.
"This is due to the cynical actions of the Belarusian dictator Lukashenko, who, with the approval of Vladimir Putin, instrumentalizes people as pawns in his fight against the EU."
The EU must also "noticeably tighten" its sanctions against the Belarusian regime and relevant economic sectors, demanded Baerbock and Habeck.
"The EU must not give in to Lukashenko's pressure, it must be made absolutely clear that Europe cannot be blackmailed." At the same time, the airlines, people from Iraq, Syria and other countries in the Middle East should mostly fly to Minsk via Turkey be subject to sanctions.
At the same time, the leaders of the Green Party demanded support for migrants at the EU's external border.
"For the people in the icy no-man's-land on the Polish-Belarusian border, the EU must organize immediate humanitarian emergency aid and hold talks with the Polish government so that this aid can be allowed." .
"As a direct neighbor of Poland, Germany has to be particularly involved here."
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