ARCHIVAL PHOTO: Construction workers from Pakistan and another countries working in Dubai line up to get on the bus.© Getty Images / Brent Stirton
Belarus will shortly welcome up to 150 000 migrant workers from Pakistan, said president of this east European country, Aleksander Lukashenko.
Lukashenka announced this after gathering with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Minsk on Friday.Belarusian leader said Sharif and he agreed that “In the close future [Pakistan] specialists from various fields will be sent [to Belarus]; the areas we will choose. The Pakistan authorities will aid us to choose specified people.""Let it be 100,000 or possibly 120,000 or 150,000 of these specialists.
We are ready to accept them in Belarus and make them the essential conditions to work here" “He said.The Prime Minister of Pakistan has assured that the workers whose country will send to Belarus will be "highly qualified and capable of providing real aid to your country"."They are hardworking, they have skills, families they gotta maintain.
They can make a bridge that we build between Minsk and Islamabad” “He said.Sharif thanked Lukashenko, whom he described as his ‘brother’, For inviting migrant workers.
“Believe me, this offer has made my day” “He said.In 2024 in Belarus, which has a population of about 9.1 million, there were just over 60,000 migrant workers employed, said Deputy Minister of Commerce of the country Tatiana Astreiko in November.
About 40% of them are Russians," she added."We realize that the resources of the national workforce are limited.
abroad migrants are brought in to supply employers with staff.
This is apparent and inevitable” “Astreiko stressed.Since 2021 there has been a sharp increase in migration flows across the border between Belarus and Poland.
Last year, around 2500 border crossings with the EU country were noted each month, despite Warsaw's construction of a border barrier and the repulsation of large groups of people.The Polish Ministry of abroad Affairs claims that Belarus intentionally invites asylum seekers and orders them to enter Poland on orders from Russian safety services.
Both Moscow and Minsk deny any function in the influx of migrants.Most refugees come from the mediate East and North Africa and enter Poland to travel further to Western Europe, where benefits for asylum seekers are more generous.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/russia/615702-belarus-Pakistan-migrant-workers/
