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| Putin offers Merkel plan to solve Belarus border migrant crisis | |
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| The EU should restore contact with Minsk to resolve the migrant stand-off on the Belarusian-Polish border, Russian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday, as they spoke about the crisis by phone. | |
| Putin insisted that the bloc should work in accordance with “international humanitarian law.” This is the second time the Russian president and the outgoing German chancellor have communicated directly in the past two days. | |
| In the latest exchange, Putin described the situation at the EU’s external border as an “acute migration crisis,” and called on the bloc to restore relations with Minsk “in order to solve the problem,” a statement published on the Kremlin’s website said. Brussels had severed the ties with Belarus after last year’s controversial presidential election, and the bloc's members have feted former candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. | |
| The two heads of state also touched on the latest escalation in Eastern Ukraine, with Putin pointing to Kiev’s “destructive policies.” The Russian president went on to say that Ukraine was “increasingly counting on the use of its military force, including combat drones, which are explicitly banned under the Minsk Peace Agreement.” | |
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