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Throughout a go to to the Belarus-Poland border on Friday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko advised migrants that his authorities may assist them return to their house international locations. However FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg, reporting from a border camp in Belarus, mentioned few had been enticed by the provide.
Outdoors a large warehouse in Bruzgi, Belarus, close to the border with Poland, migrants stand in orderly strains, ready to obtain meals and heat garments to courageous the brutal East European winter. Migrants are allowed to sleep within the warehouse.
“Everybody we spoke to mentioned they don’t plan to make the most of the free flights being supplied again to Iraq. They’re nonetheless decided to attempt to make it into the European Union,” says FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg, reporting from Bruzgi.
A migrant standing in a meals line mentioned, “I’m an Iraqi citizen. I promised myself I’d by no means return to Iraq as a result of in Iraq we’re neither bodily protected nor economically safe.”
The West accuses Belarus of bringing in would-be migrants – largely from Iraq – below the false pretence they’d be to cross into EU members Poland and Lithuania.
Belarus has denied the declare and criticised the EU for not taking within the migrants.
Iraq has been sending extra planes to Belarus to repatriate greater than 800 migrants caught on the border. Round 1,000 migrants have been collected since operations began, Iraqi authorities mentioned on Friday.
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