MINSK, 28 September (BelTA) - More than 250,000 Ukrainians have moved to Belarus since the beginning of the conflict through our border with the EU. Recently it’s been 12,000-15,000 per month, Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov said at the general debate of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, BelTA has learned.
“These are the official figures from the Belarusian border guard service. People are running from ‘prosperous Europe’ today. Obviously people would not be running to the ‘country-aggressor’. By the way, this number is many times higher than the number of refugees crossing our border to the EU,” the minister said.
He emphasized that pushbacks of migrants into Belarus is another dirty page in the book of European ‘democracy’. “On Belarus’ border with the EU, the military of some European Union countries beat, torture thousands of refugees from Asia, Africa and the Middle East with impunity. Dozens of them were killed, which, by the way, is documented by international independent sources. Many were buried even without personal data. They do not exist,” the minister said.
He recalled that the Council of Europe had recently unequivocally condemned such actions. He also criticized Poland's new rules for legal use of firearms by Polish soldiers against refugees.
“This is how 'enlightened Europe' meets those fleeing the horrors and upheavals which were the results of the policies and the interference by the collective West in the sovereign affairs of foreign countries,” Maksim Ryzhenkov observed. “Violence against refugees is a flagrant violation of the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. We have documented all the facts and will soon send them to the appropriate international organizations. Although these organizations themselves should have taken up this issue long ago”.
“These are the official figures from the Belarusian border guard service. People are running from ‘prosperous Europe’ today. Obviously people would not be running to the ‘country-aggressor’. By the way, this number is many times higher than the number of refugees crossing our border to the EU,” the minister said.
He emphasized that pushbacks of migrants into Belarus is another dirty page in the book of European ‘democracy’. “On Belarus’ border with the EU, the military of some European Union countries beat, torture thousands of refugees from Asia, Africa and the Middle East with impunity. Dozens of them were killed, which, by the way, is documented by international independent sources. Many were buried even without personal data. They do not exist,” the minister said.
He recalled that the Council of Europe had recently unequivocally condemned such actions. He also criticized Poland's new rules for legal use of firearms by Polish soldiers against refugees.
“This is how 'enlightened Europe' meets those fleeing the horrors and upheavals which were the results of the policies and the interference by the collective West in the sovereign affairs of foreign countries,” Maksim Ryzhenkov observed. “Violence against refugees is a flagrant violation of the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. We have documented all the facts and will soon send them to the appropriate international organizations. Although these organizations themselves should have taken up this issue long ago”.
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