Belarusian Leader Agrees to EU Talks on Border Crisis: Press Agency

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko chairs a meeting, dedicated to the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, in Minsk, Belarus November 16, 2021. Nikolai Petrov/BelTA/Handout via Reuters

Belarusian president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, allegedly agreed to negotiate with the European Union about how to solve the illegal immigration crisis at the Belarusian–Polish border.

Lukashenko, in a phone conversation with Germany’s acting Chancellor Angela Merkel, on Monday, agreed that Belarus would negotiate with the EU a solution to the border crisis, according to Belarusian press agency Belta.