Updated November 19th, 2021 at 16:45 IST

Blinken visits Nigeria, comments on Belarus-Poland

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of seeking to "weaponize migration", in a move that Blinken described as "profoundly unconscionable".

IMAGE: AP | Image:self
Advertisement

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of seeking to "weaponize migration", in a move that Blinken described as "profoundly unconscionable".

"It is doing a terrible injustice to these people that is victimizing by making them pawns in the efforts that the Belarusian regime is making to be disruptive," he told a press conference during a trip to Abuja, Nigeria.

IMAGE: AP

Advertisement

Published November 19th, 2021 at 16:45 IST