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November 17, 2021 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed by telephone to start talks between Minsk and Brussels on the ongoing migrant crisis on the border with Poland. The Belta news agency reported. The two leaders "agreed that the problem as a whole will be raised at the level of Belarus and the EU"; exponents of "both sides will begin negotiations immediately".



"I have not heard of an extraordinary summit" on the migrant crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, "but let's say, politely, that migrants are being used as a foreign policy tool", said Prime Minister Mario Draghi, on the sidelines of the '  meeting at Palazzo Chigi with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, Edi Rama.



"Europe is on the side of the people trapped on the border with Belarus. The European Commission is mobilizing € 700,000 to deliver food, blankets, hygiene kits and first aid kits. We are ready to do more. But the Belarusian regime must stop luring people and putting their lives at risk. " So the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Twitter.



Maciej Wasik, Polish deputy interior minister, said on Wednesday that migrants who have been in a makeshift camp on the Belarusian side of Poland's eastern border for days have been taken away by bus by Belarusian officials.

"I have received information that Lukashenko has provided the first buses for the migrants," the official said.

"The camp near Kuznica is slowly emptying," he added.

It is not clear where the migrants are being taken: Belarusian state news agency Belta reported that they were welcomed inside a logistics center on the border, giving them the opportunity, after several days, to sleep indoors instead of in tents outside. 'open.