Western members of the UN Security Council have condemned Belarus for the escalating crisis over migrants stranded on its border with Poland, BBC reported.
In a strongly worded statement, they accused Belarus of using the migrants to destabilise the European Union's eastern border. Russia, Belarus's main ally, rejected the accusations.
It is reminded that thousands of people, many of them Kurds arriving from the Middle East, are camping at the border with Poland, enduring freezing conditions in the hope of crossing into the EU.
At Thursday's emergency UN Security Council meeting, Western member states issued a joint statement, accusing Belarus of putting migrants' lives in danger "for political purposes".
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