Ukraine: Belarusian authorities say they have helped more than 100 migrants leaving the state on Monday and more ready to go Tuesday, a statement that came after almost two weeks of tensions on the Belarus border with Poland, where hundreds of migrants remained jammed.
Officials of the Ministry of Interior Belarus said on Tuesday that 118 migrants flew out of the capital, Minsk, on Monday to their home countries after the authority of the former Soviet state “helped them with documents and crossed the national border.” The authorities do this work “every day,” and on Tuesday a group of other migrants is expected to leave Belarus, Alexei said, the Head of the Ministry of Citizenship and Migration at the Ministry.
Start not to mention the citizenship of the migrants or the country they left behind.
Last week, more than 400 Iraqi migrants left Belarus on evacuation flights organized by Iraqi authorities.
Since November 8, a large group of people, most of the Middle East has been stranded in Belarus on the border crossing with Poland, trapped as the strength of both countries facing each other.
Mostly escape from conflict or despair at home, and aim to reach Germany or other Western European countries.
West accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko lured the migrants to the border to use it as a pawn to disrupt the European Union 27 countries in retaliation for sanctions on its authoritarian government.
Belarus denied arranging the crisis, which had seen migrants entering the country since the summer and then tried to cross to Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
About 2,000 people currently live in warehouse facilities near the border with Poland.
Lukashenko said a total of 7,000 migrants remained in the country.
A spokesman for Poland’s security services, Stanislaw Zaryn estimates that around 10,000 migrants are in Belarus now.
International Organizational Officials for Migration and High Commissioner of the United Nations for the refugee office arrived in Belarus on Tuesday to discuss the delivery of assistance and documents needed to repatriate migrants.