Iraqi authorities have evacuated more than 3,500 migrants from the Polish-Belarusian border area, Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Sahaf was quoted as saying by Iraq's national news agency INA on Sunday.
"So far, the ministry has managed to organize nine export flights from Minsk," he said, adding that the flights had voluntarily returned 3,556 migrants stranded at the Belarusian-Polish border.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman noted that "383 passports have been issued so far to migrants who have lost their documents in Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland." "Iraqi embassies in Moscow and Warsaw," Al-Sahhaf added, "continue to support Iraqi citizens who are blocked at the border and have decided to leave voluntarily for their homeland." He also pointed out that special consular delegations of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry work in Minsk, as well as in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
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