CoE Parliamentary Assembly Adopts Resolution on Belarusian Migrants and Asylum Seekers [1]
On September 30, 2021, the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe adopted [3] Resolution 2404 [4] to address migrant and asylum seeker arrivals from Belarus. The Parliamentary Assembly expressed its concern about the increased migration and asylum pressures at the Belarus border with Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. The Assembly described the pressure as Belarus’s instrumentalization of migration as a response to EU sanctions against Belarus. The Parliamentary Assembly emphasized the importance of effective border management as well as the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. The Assembly called on Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland to ensure respect for migrants’ and asylum seekers’ rights, and Belarus to stop instrumentalization of migrants and asylum seekers, and it asked members of the Council of Europe to support Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.