The Belarusian authorities, jointly with the representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), are hammering out the measures to settle the migration crisis on the border with Poland and repatriate the refugees willing to return to their homes, Head of the Citizenship and Migration Department of the Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry Alexei Begun stated, APA reports citing TASS.
"Currently, the representatives of the IOM and the UNHCR are in Belarus, they are holding a number of meetings with the government bodies to develop joint steps to resolve the migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border," the head of the department noted.
Begun said that the sides would work out "the joint activities to repatriate those who seek to return to their homeland as well as to regulate their legal status and possible admission to a third country that wants to accept them."