Ministry of Internal Affairs: Belarus should take migrants if they break into Ukraine
There is a readmission agreement between Ukraine and Belarus last year. This means that illegal migrants who entered their territory from their side can be expelled back. And the side from which they came will be obliged to accept them. About it reported Director of the Department of Internal Affairs Shevchenko.
He clarified that earlier, before the start of the current migration crisis with Poland and Lithuania, planned in Minsk and Moscow, Belarus from the same agreement with the EU by voting a separate law in its parliament.
“This means that for now, at least, there is a legal basis for preventing the same situation on the Ukrainian border with Belarus as in Poland. But you still need to prepare, ”wrote the Communications Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
He recalled that the State Border Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine already have a successful experience of such containment through Belarus, albeit a much smaller group of people.
In particular, in September 2020, about a thousand Hasidic pilgrims wanted to get to Ukraine from Belarus in the Chernihiv region because of the direction at the Novaya Guta-Novye Yarilovichi checkpoints, despite the introduction of quarantine restrictions for celebrating the Jewish New Year in Uman.
“They then did not try to break through the forests, they were not urged forward by the Belarusian border guards, who are an indispensable part of the KGB of the Republic of Bashkortostan, and after several days of an unsuccessful camp on the highway, they returned,” said the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
At the same time, Shevchenko noted that in Ukraine the border in both the north and the east still needs to be urgently built and resources allocated for this.
According to him, the length of the ten most dangerous sections for mass crossing by illegal immigrants from the north is 270 km from the 1,084 kilometer border with the Republic of Belarus.
“Just to close these 270 km with at least a spiral barbed wire“ Egoza ”, 189 million hryvnias are needed. And all the engineering arrangement of the border with Belarus – UAH 7 billion, ”Shevchenko said.
Earlier, unrecognized President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Minsk had recorded attempts to supply weapons to migrants gathered on the border with Poland.
Lukashenka also put forward an ultimatum to Europe because of the migrants.
As you know, Poland is now experiencing a migration crisis. The day before, a Kurdish teenager who was in a migrant camp died on the border with Belarus.
Today the Security Council will hold an emergency meeting over migrants.
Let us remind you that the Prime Minister of Poland accused Minsk of state terrorism.
By the way, the migrants told about “ping-pong” by people on the border of Belarus and Poland.
Meanwhile, Belarus blamed Poland for the migration crisis at the border.
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