(AP) The authoritarian leader of Belarus on Monday sharply criticized the European Union for its refusal to hold talks on the influx of migrants on the country’s border with Poland.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko urged Germany to accommodate about 2,000 migrants who had remained on the border with Poland and slammed EU officials for refusing to negotiate an end to the standoff.
“We must demand that the Germans take them,” Lukashenko said at a meeting with officials.
He charged that German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised him that the EU will deal with the issue when they spoke by phone this month.
“I’m still waiting for the EU to give us a response about 2,000 refugees,” Lukashenko said. “They haven’t even contacted us.”
