MINSK, 23 August (BelTA) – Poland has caused a conflict on the border with Belarus, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the extraordinary session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on the situation in Afghanistan on 23 August, BelTA informs.
Speaking about the problem of refugees from Afghanistan, Aleksandr Lukashenko mentioned the events of the past 2-3 days on the border with Poland.
According to the head of state, Afghan refugees have already moved through Belarus to the west who invited them and promised to welcome all of them. “What did the Poles do? They caught (I cannot put it differently) about 50 people on the territory of Poland. Those people said they were travelling to Germany following the invitation of Mutter Merkel. Threatening them with weapons, shooting in the air, the Poles forces them to move to the border with Belarus. Of course, they were going to Germany, and they do not want to go to Belarus. This is how Poland caused a border conflict on the border, violating the state border of Belarus,” the president said.
“Those poor people crossed the border of Belarus and have been staying there for two or three days. Without water, without food, without shelter. It is not easy to stay there – the weather is 7-8 degrees above zero at night. Poor people. Now I need to think what to do with them,” the head of state said.
