"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
On Tuesday, Sahaf said that Iraq’s embassy in Poland will offer Iraqi
Iraq began offering repatriation flights last month, returning over 3,000 Iraqi and Kurdish
Erbil and Baghdad have accused Minsk of exploiting the
...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
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
It has not yet been revealed whether either official raised the issue of the 27