The European Commission will allocate up to € 3.5 million for the repatriation of migrants from Belarus

“We will mobilize up to € 3.5 million to support the voluntary return of (migrants. -

) from Belarus,” she said in a statement published on the EC website.

Ursula von der Leyen also noted the actions of the Iraqi authorities to return citizens from the Belarusian-Polish border.

Earlier, more than 50 migrants on the border of Belarus and Poland expressed a desire to return to Iraq.

The consul of Iraq in Russia, Majid al-Kilani, said that the Iraqi authorities had prepared another plane for the export of citizens from Belarus in case the number of those wishing to leave the republic exceeds 430 people.