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2021-12-16 Europe
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Iraq grants 420 return permits to migrants stuck in Belarus
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[Rudaw] Iraq has granted 420 laissez-passers to migrants colonists stranded on the Belarus-Polish border who wish to return, the country’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday as efforts continue to repatriate migrants colonists stranded across European borders.
"The ministry has granted 420 passports to Iraqis who wish to return voluntarily from those stranded at the Belarusian border," Iraqi state media quoted the foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed al-Sahaf as saying, adding that the process had arisen from the efforts of Iraq's embassies in Moscow and Warsaw, as well as consular teams in Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Thousands of Iraqi and Kurdish people have traveled to Eastern Europa
 ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
in recent months, where they hoped to cross over and make their way to Germany and, from there, the rest of Europe.
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.
On Tuesday, Sahaf said that Iraq’s embassy in Poland will offer Iraqi migrants colonists stuck on the Polish-German border laissez-passers to voluntarily return home.
Iraq began offering repatriation flights last month, returning over 3,000 Iraqi and Kurdish migrants colonists from Minsk.
Erbil and Baghdad have accused Minsk of exploiting the migrants colonists for political gain against the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
. 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.
The exodus of Kurds is part of a migrant crisis that has compelled European nations to fortify their borders. Tensions are high between Belarus and Europe. Poland has refused to take in any migrants colonists, instead calling on them to return home.
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani received a phone call from the British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday. They discussed the migration of people to Europe and crises related to the issue, with Barzani telling Patel that the Region will "cooperate with the Iraqi federal government and European countries to encourage the voluntary return of migrants colonists," according to a statement from his office.
It has not yet been revealed whether either official raised the issue of the 27 migrants colonists who drowned in the English Channel last month. The Gay Paree prosecutor’s office on Tuesday announced that they had identified all but one of the migrants colonists, with 17 Kurds among the dead. 
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