{"id":93763,"date":"2024-07-03T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/93763\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"lukasenka-reiterates-refusal-to-help-eu-combat-illegal-migration","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/93763\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka reiterates refusal to help EU combat illegal migration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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July 3, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka reiterated yesterday that he will not help the European Union combat illegal migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI do not intend to give orders to border guards, military and others to defend the European Union at the border between Belarus and Poland,\u201d he said in his Independence Day address, as quoted by state media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He linked his refusal to cooperate on migration to sanctions that the EU had imposed on Belarus over allegations of human rights abuses, the forced landing of a Ryanair plane and Minsk\u2019s complicity in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou tied a noose around our neck, and yet you are forcing us to defend you from these poor people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore the introduction of sanctions we worked closely with the West and went as far as to conclude a readmission treaty. Later they disavowed it. We will not catch them [migrants]. Our business is to secure our people,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was actually Minsk that terminated the readmission treaty, not the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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