Foreign Ministry: refugees’ problems do not particularly bother European diplomacy
This was noted by the press secretary of Belarus’ Foreign Ministry, Anatoly Glaz, as he answered a question about the statement of a EU high representative on the alleged victory of European diplomacy in the migration crisis – as reported by the Belarusian Foreign Ministry’s press service
“We feel sorry for European diplomacy if they think in such categories. Militant rhetoric, continuous punitive measures and a complete lack of responsibility for the consequences. Philosopher Nassim Taleb calls such figures interventionists. Sadly, the fate of people for them is just another imaginary battlefield. The problems of refugees, their deaths at the border, separated families, business difficulties in the emergency zone and transport collapse do not particularly bother such European diplomacy. There are no words about high values and human rights. However, there are speeches about victory,” Mr. Glaz noted.
The Foreign Ministry believes that Josep Borrell is actually engaged in eye washing. “He again keeps silent about the key: over the past decade, NATO countries, including EU members, led by the United States, have become a real machine for production of refugees on a global scale. They are moving by different routes. The whole world remembers well the footage of 2015-2016 when refugees huddled in the open air in European capitals for months. Not to mention the ongoing human casualties in the Mediterranean Region, the English Channel and Polish forests. This was not in Belarus but a couple of kilometres from Mr. Borrell's office where refugees sewed their mouths up in an attempt to draw attention to their problems. He also did not say a word that, in the current situation, it was Belarus that showed goodwill and humanity, facilitated repatriation, housed and fed at its own expense about two thousand people who were watered with toxic chemicals and tear gas by the EU," the official representative of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry stressed.
According to the Foreign Ministry, brave European diplomacy did everything to aggravate the problem and then – following its own style – sent a delegation which members promised everything but did nothing.
“This is how they ‘won’. Actually, without this goodwill of Minsk, the European official would hardly have been able to report on his single ‘achievement’ over a year. We still expect that the European Union, instead of malicious glee, will show responsibility, pass its part of the path, and fulfil the agreements it has undertaken in the interests of solving people's problems – thus enabling some migrants to reunite with their families in EU countries on the eve of the New Year holidays,” Mr. Glaz emphasised.
