GThe lava of the British Foreign Ministry said that Russia is responsible for the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. Zakharova noted that Britain helped the US “occupy” Iraq and therefore has no right to such accusations
British officials have no right to accuse other countries of involvement in migration crises until London answers for the consequences of the invasion of Iraq, said the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
So she replied to the British Foreign Minister Elizabeth Truss, who said that Russia is responsible for the migration crisis on the border of Poland and Belarus and should put pressure on Minsk to end it. The Foreign Minister called the crisis “carefully designed”.
“The British invasion of Iraq was carefully designed. 45 thousand British soldiers helped the United States to occupy this country, kill its citizens and plunder the bowels. Britain bears a clear historical responsibility for everything that happens from this moment onwards, the death of Iraqis, the destruction of the statehood of Iraq, endless flows of refugees, the emergence of ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in Russia. —RBC), humanitarian disasters in this part of the world,” Zakharova wrote in Telegram.
In her opinion, until Britain answers for its crimes, its officials have no right to blame anyone.
President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia was not involved in the migration crisis. “I want everyone to know. We have absolutely nothing to do with it. There, everyone is trying to impose some kind of responsibility on us for any reason and for no reason at all,” he stressed.
The tension on the Belarusian-Polish border has been maintained for the last week. On November 8, a column of migrants approached the border from Belarus, but Polish border guards did not let people into the country. According to the Belarusian state agency BelTA, the majority of migrants are Kurds. Since then, refugees have broken through the barrier at the border several times and entered the territory of Poland.
The State Border Committee of Belarus claimed that the migrants organized themselves and thus wanted to draw attention to “Poland’s actions regarding non-compliance with human rights”.
However, Poland and the rest of the EU are confident that Minsk deliberately organized the crisis situation in order to put pressure on the neighboring country. Polish President Andrzej Duda said that the Belarusian services purposefully led migrants to the part of the border where there is no border crossing, so that they “attacked the Polish-Belarusian border”.
The press secretary of the Belarusian president Natalia Eismont said that Minsk is always ready for dialogue with the European Union on the issue of migrants. “I’ll tell you this: we have always been ready, now we are ready and we will be ready to discuss. We did not destroy this dialogue,” she stressed.
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