“I want everyone to know that. We have nothing to do with this.”. Russian President Vladimir Putin assured Saturday, November 13 that Russia had no responsibility for the ongoing migration crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland in an interview with the Vesti channel. Russia is accused by several Western voices of having orchestrated with Minsk the sending of these migrants to the border. Follow our live.
Visible “progress”. Turkey, a major air junction between Europe and the Middle East, announced on Friday that Iraqis, Syrians and Yemenis would no longer be allowed to board for Belarus from its airports. “until further notice”. Soon after, the Iraqi government said it was working to register Iraqi migrants stranded at the Belarus-Poland border who wanted to return. “voluntarily”. “We are seeing progress on all fronts”, welcomed Friday the Vice-President of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas.
The concern of the United States. US President Joe Biden shared his “great concern” in the face of the crisis on the border between Poland and Belarus, after similar remarks by Vice-President Kamala Harris. A little earlier, on an official trip to Paris, the latter had considered that Belarus was “engaged in an activity of great concern”.
Syrian migrant found dead. “The body of a young man of Syrian nationality was discovered yesterday in the woods near Wolka Terechowska”, said a statement on Saturday from the police in the Podlasie region (east). According to this text, “the causes of death could not be determined on the spot”.