EU and Belarusian foreign policy chiefs directly discuss the migrant crisis for the first time as Brussels gets ready to impose more sanctions on Minsk
Poland has refused to allow the migrants in and has accused Belarus of preventing them from leaving.
The development came as Brussels prepares to impose sweeping new sanctions for human trafficking that Minsk said would be futile and "counter-productive". Western countries accuse Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's regime of engineering the crisis by encouraging migrants to come to Belarus and then taking them to the border since the summer.Russian President Vladimir Putin has also rejected accusations of being involved in the crisis and has urged the EU to speak directly to Belarus.Poland earlier on Sunday said dozens of migrants were detained after crossing from Belarus and warned of a possible larger breakthrough.
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