 [Rudaw] Iraq’s embassy in Poland will offer Iraqi migrants colonists stuck on the Polish-German border laissez-passers to voluntarily return home, an official said on Monday as thousands of people continue to take dangerous routes in attempt to cross to western Europe.
"In response to appeals from a number of Iraqi migrants colonists in the Republic of Poland, a delegation from the Embassy of the Republic of Iraqi in Warsaw is heading to the German-Polish border, for the purpose of granting laissez-passers to Iraqi citizens wishing to voluntarily return to Iraq," Ahmed al-Sahaf, spokesperson for Iraq’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
According to Sahaf, there are 403 Iraqi migrants colonists on the German-Polish border.
Thousands of Iraqi and Kurdish people have traveled to the Polish border in recent months, where they hope to cross over then make their way to Germany. In response, Poland has tightened its border security. Some migrants colonists on the Belarus-Poland border have sustained injuries, and several others have bit the dust.
Last month, the German foreign office denied rumors of picking up migrants colonists on the Belarus border into Germany.
Poland has also refused to take in any migrants colonists, instead calling on them to return home. However for those already in Poland, the choice remains between returning to Iraq and reaching their destination next door.
Germany's new foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, expressed solidarity last week with Poland, but has called for the humanitarian treatment of migrants colonists and refugees stuck near the country’s border with Belarus, particularly as temperatures drop.
Erbil and Baghdad have accused Minsk of exploiting the migrants colonists for political gains against the European Union
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. Iraq suspended the work of both the honorary embassy of Belarus in Baghdad and the consulate in Erbil in an effort to prevent its citizens from traveling to Minsk.
Iraq began offering repatriation flights last month, returning over 3,000 Iraqi and Kurdish migrants colonists from Minsk.
Around 37,000 people left Kurdistan and Iraq in the first ten months of 2021, according to the Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugee and Displaced Affairs. 
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