at least 10 migrants located on the Belarusian-Polish border died due to the negative temperature, international humanitarian organizations should assist to prevent new deaths, and the parties to go to the de essociation of the situation. This is stated in the press release of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (MFCC), which entered the “Lent.ru”.
“We urge to provide access to a red cross and other humanitarian organizations to ensure that all needy people on the border can receive medical and humanitarian aid,” said Andreas von Weisssenberg, head of the IFCC department for natural disasters, climate and crisis in Europe.
In the same document, it is reported that the local branches of the Red Cross – in Belarus, Poland and Lithuania – but they have no complete access to migrants, and the states must provide it.
“Humanitarian organizations should be given unconditional and safe access to all in need, regardless of their legal status. People go the border only in clothes. They need food, medicines, hygiene products, clothing and protection tools from COVID-19. We need Let us provide critical help, and we want to see peaceful, humane and rights-based solution, “added Weisssenberg.
The migration crisis on the border of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania aggravated in November. Crowds of migrants accumulated the republic’s cordons, some of them periodically attempt to break through the territory of the European Union.