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Migrants at the Polish border: Putin denies all responsibility

2021-11-13T11:26:41.652Z


The Russian president, accused of protecting, even supporting, his loyal Belarusian ally, accuses Western countries of creating the mid-crisis


A denial that takes the form of accusations.

In an interview broadcast this Saturday, Vladimir Putin rejects any responsibility for the ongoing migration crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, where thousands of migrants have been massed for days in appalling conditions.

“I want everyone to know that we have nothing to do with this.

Everyone is trying to impose a responsibility on us, for no reason, "the Russian president, accused this week by Western voices of supporting the sending by Minsk of thousands of migrants to the eastern border of Russia, told TV channel. European Union.

The EU accuses Belarus of having organized this influx in response to Western sanctions and has been trying for several days to stem these movements by stopping flights to Minsk, welcoming "progress" on Friday.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki earlier this week accused Putin of being the “sponsor” of the “attack”.

Vladimir Putin, for his part, urged European leaders to dialogue with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to resolve this crisis.

Knowing “why they don't talk to each other is not our concern.

But I understand, from conversations with Alexander Lukashenko and Chancellor Merkel, that they are ready to talk to each other.

I hope that this will happen in the near future and that it will be possible to establish some kind of direct contact between the European Union or the main countries of the EU, at least between the Federal Republic and Belarus.

This is the most important, because migrants tend to go mainly to Germany, ”continued the head of Russia.

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In this interview, he accuses the Western powers of being responsible for the migration crises.

The "reasons" for the exile of so many people "were created by the Western countries themselves" which created "problems" of a "political, military and economic" nature.

“Military because everyone took part in operations in Iraq, and now there are a lot of Iraqi Kurds, and they fought in Afghanistan for 20 years, now there are more and more Afghans.

Belarus has nothing to do with it, ”he insisted.

He mocks the "values ​​of humanism" that Europe wants to embody

And to criticize the "policy of the great European countries", in particular Germany, he accuses, which make dangle with "people who work well in the countries of the Middle East, including those where one extracts the oil ”that their income will be higher by becoming“ inactive migrants receiving social benefits ”, free medical care and education. “Of course, people are drawn to it,” he continues.

Biting, he mocks the "values ​​of humanism" that Europe wants to embody. "When, on the border between Belarus and Poland, Polish border guards and representatives of the armed forces beat these potential migrants, shoot over their heads with military weapons, let the sirens and the lights go on. at night, at the place where (sleep, Editor's note) children and women in their last month of pregnancy, it is not very consistent with the ideas of humanism, which would be the basis of the policy of our neighbors Westerners ”.

In this war of nerves and declarations to the detriment of migrants - a dozen of them are said to have died of cold, including a 14-year-old teenager - the Polish border guards for their part affirmed this Saturday that, during the night, Belarusian soldiers ripped off a section of the temporary fence erected by Poland to deter migrants from passing.

And that Belarusian forces continued to prevent the hurrying Kurds, Iraqis, Syrians or Afghans from turning back outside the 3 km zone around the border.

Source: leparis

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