MOSCOW. Sept 10 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the West ought to accept Afghan refugees stranded on the Belarusian borders with Lithuania and Poland.
"Some Afghans are arriving at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border and the Belarusian-Polish border. Well, okay, there are not only Afghans there, but these people, including Afghans, are being indiscriminately banished from the territory of European states," Putin said at a press conference after talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
"One can levy all sorts of accusations against Belarus, but you should accept at least these Afghans," he said.
"Where are you banishing them to? To Afghanistan? And then you will ask us to take them out of there. There is no logic," Putin said.