German Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused Belarusian leader Lukashenko of exploiting undocumented migrants.Haiku Moss has described the deportation of refugees to the Polish border as a negative ploy.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Moss has called on the European Union to impose sanctions on Belarus for raising the issue of refugees unnecessarily.Thousands of refugees are currently stranded on the Polish border with Belarus in the freezing cold.
The Polish government has accused Belarus and the Russian Federation of trying to threaten European security by using refugees.
Possible Enforcement of Sanctions
German Foreign Minister Heiko Moss said in a statement that Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko had used "negative tactics" to send refugees to the border.
Moss also said that anyone found involved in the current process of smuggling refugees would face sanctions.
The search for the parents of a refugee who has been missing for 12 years on the Belarusian border.
It is possible that the new sanctions could include migrant smugglers as well as airlines, which continue to transport migrants to Europe.
He described the pictures of thousands of refugees gathering on the Polish-Belarusian border as "sad and disturbing".
Many Attempts to Cross the Border
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczyk told PR One that several attempts had been made to cross the border.He also said that any refugees who managed to cross the Polish border were detained.
Refugee Crisis on Poland-Belarus Border
It is also being reported that no refugees have been allowed to enter Poland so far.Tensions have risen between Belarus and Poland over the crisis.
German Interior Minister Horst Zehoffer told the Bild newspaper that Germany needed to help Poland deal with the refugee crisis.
Europe united
Manfred Weber, the parliamentary leader of the conservative European People's Party in the European Parliament, told DW that a government based on Lukashenko's allies in Belarus had to face sanctions from the European Union.
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He also said that the influx of refugees could not be considered as a normal migration process as Syria was facing a war situation in 2015 and at that time people were forced to flee for their lives.He also said that in a situation like this hybrid war, Europe desperately needs to remain united.
EU Response
European Commission President Arzula van der Leyen just two days ago on Monday approved an extension of the sanctions already in place.So far, the union has imposed sanctions on 166 individuals and 15 entities affiliated with or affiliated with the Lukashenko government.
Tensions between the union and Belarus erupted when the Minsk government arrested an anti-government activist in May this year after forcibly taking off a Rhineair airliner over the country's airspace.
The European Union (EU) has condemned last year's presidential election because of its lack of transparency.In this election, the country's election commission declared Lukashenko the winner of the election against Svetlana Tskanoskia, a female opposition candidate.
(DPA, AFP)
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