Macron – Putin communication on the crisis on the border with Belarus

The French president Emanuel Macron and the Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed, by telephone, on the need to de-escalate the migration crisis at the Belarus, although the two leaders disagreed on cause of the crisis, sources of the French presidency reported in the afternoon.

“The purpose of this telephone communication was to put one end “In this crisis,” a Macron adviser told reporters after a 1-hour, 45-minute telephone conversation between the two leaders, which took place at Macron’s initiative, according to the Elysee.

“On the issue of immigration, even if there is no convergence On the origins of the current crisis on the Belarusian border, Vladimir Putin told the President that he understood the need to put an end to it, first and foremost by human dignity for the migrants who become the subject instrumentation“, Said the French official.

It is reminded that the EU is already launching sanctions against of Belarus, intending to put pressure on Minsk, which accuses it of being behind its border pressures. Brussels, moreover, leaves tips for Moscow’s stance on this issue.

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