Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Germany's acting Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed to start negotiations at the European level to resolve the ongoing crisis at their shared border, Minsk said on Wednesday.
Lukashenko's office said the two leaders agreed that the "problem should be raised to the level of Belarus-EU (relations) and that officials appointed by each side should immediately start negotiations".
This comes a day after the bloc said it would slap Belarus with a new — and fifth — raft of sanctions over the crisis.
The EU accuses Belarusian authorities of orchestrating the crisis at the border by luring people from Middle Eastern and African countries to Minsk, promising that they'd be able to cross the borders with
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