British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has written a special piece for the conservative Sunday Telegraph. In it, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for an end to the “shameful and shameful migrant crisis” at the Belarusian border, and also noted that the “Kremlin has a clear responsibility” to stop Belarus’ efforts to destabilize the region as a chess figure. immigrants.
Truss thus circumvented the most sophisticated expert analyzes, which state that President Alexander Lukashenko always wanted to create ready-made situations – even to annoy the Kremlin – and that “desperate” migrants arrive in Belarus on scheduled flights to buy tickets and cash was obtained to finance the border crossing.
To all this, Putin responded with this
“It has nothing to do with us, no matter how much they would like to transfer responsibility to us for whatever reason.”
Britain’s foreign secretary said Britain was “not looking away” while its European allies needed to “confront a carefully planned crisis” aimed at “diverting attention from the series of painful measures and human rights abuses” that could be written into the account from the system. He added that London “defends the countries of Visegrad” as well as the Baltic states and Ukraine.
Regarding human rights abuses, however, Truss did not indicate that advocacy groups were highly critical of the Polish government for preventing them, aid workers and journalists from entering the border – making it difficult to know exactly what was going on. Polish media and Reporters Without Borders also described it as an “arbitrary and disproportionate” move as journalists on the Polish side have not been able to approach the border for two months now.
The migrants accused the Polish border guards of rudeness and of using tear gas against them. On the other hand, border guards, soldiers and police said they were stoned at people seeking to enter EU territory – the claim could not be confirmed due to the absence of the media.
London is concerned not only with the migrant crisis at the Belarusian border because it is part of its geopolitical game with its traditional enemy, Russia, but also because it fears that
Immigrants, not to Poland but to the West, would one day appear in the waters of the English Channel and reach the British coast.
Truss also urged the EU to “strengthen its relations with like-minded countries, reconsider whether it will depend on Russia for natural gas and stop approving the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.”
This contrasts somewhat with criticism of Moscow during the recent gas crisis, according to which Europe will buy more gas from it, but is not ready to sell more.
Returning to the migrant crisis, Truss said his country was “resolute, determined and persistent” against “malign acts everywhere in the world” and here again he mentioned Moscow, which “should force the Minsk authorities to dialogue”. On Friday, British forces reinforced 15,000 Polish units led by the border.
Newsletter: MTI / EPA / Facundo Arrizabalaga
