The refugee crisis is exacerbating and a new American position .. Europe threatens airlines and intends to tighten sanctions on Belarus

The European Union announced, Monday, its intention to tighten sanctions against Belarus, and threatened to take measures against airlines that transport asylum seekers, while Washington took a new position, amid the aggravation of the crisis of migrants stranded at the border between Poland and Belarus.

The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the dire humanitarian situation on the border with the European Union was unacceptable and must end.

"We are starting to get the situation under control with regard to the asylum seekers' file," Borrell added.

It is scheduled to discuss the European Union ministers today in Brussels, the file of asylum seekers, as well as the imposition of new sanctions against Belarus due to the crisis.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the European Union would tighten sanctions against Belarus.

Maas added that airlines that continue to transport asylum seekers to Minsk could face European sanctions.

For its part, Belarus has expressed readiness for dialogue with the EU to solve the refugee crisis, according to the President's spokeswoman.

The Belarusian authorities also announced the distribution of more than 7 tons of aid to refugees at the border during the past two days.

In Poland, police announced that a group of 50 asylum seekers had crossed the border with Belarus and entered the country.

America on the line

For his part, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken blamed Russia and Belarus for the refugee crisis on the Polish-Belarus border.

This came in a statement published by US State Department spokesman Ned Price on Monday about the phone call between Blinken and his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau.

According to the statement, Blinken explained that the United States publicly held the responsibility for the refugee crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russia.

It is noteworthy that many asylum seekers tried last Monday to cross the border to enter Poland from Belarus, and there are currently about 4,000 asylum seekers at the borders of the two countries, according to the Polish news agency.

The European Union accuses Lukashenko of coordinating the arrival of the wave of migrants to the eastern side of Europe, in response to the European sanctions imposed on his country after the brutal suppression of his regime against the opposition.

Today, Monday, the UAE prevented citizens of Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Iraq from boarding flights to Minsk.

The Belarus government-owned company, Belavia, said in a notice that the UAE government's decision was issued on Sunday.