BRUZGI: Belarus authorities cleared the main camps where migrants curled on the border with Poland on Thursday, in what appeared to be a major development in a crisis that had revolved in recent weeks towards the east-west confrontation.
Help News Belarus Country Belarus said migrants who took refuge in the forest had been taken to the warehouse in Belarus far from the border.
A spokesman for the Polish border guard confirmed the camps had been cleaned.
“This camp is now empty, the migrants have been taken likely to the transportation-logistics center not far from the border junction of Bruzgi,” said the spokesman.
“We will see what happens at the next hours.
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there are still some people around, but it is clearly emptying.” European countries accused Belarus because they deliberately created a crisis by flying in migrants from West Asia and encouraging them to Try across the illegal border to Poland and Lithuania.
Minsk denied deliberately triggered.
In recent weeks, hundreds of migrants per night have tried to cross the border and have clashed with Poland’s forces on the border.
About 10 is believed to have died in frozen forests.
Moving to clean the camps came for a week intensive diplomacy.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke via telephone twice in three days Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, usually shunned by EU Eaders.
Belarus said Lukashenko had proposed a plan for Merkel to resolve the crisis, where the European Union would take 2,000 people while Minsk would send 5,000 more houses.
There is no direct response from the EU.
However, shortly before the announcement, the European Commission said there would be no negotiations.
Previously, hundreds of Iraqi residents were examined at Minsk Airport for flights back to Iraq, the first repatriated flight from August.