President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko says the Belarusian authorities are ready to send the refugees from Eastern countries and Asia — accumulated in Belarus and heading towards the European Union through a transit road — to their homeland, but the refugees don’t want to go back home, BELTA reported on Monday.

According to BELTA, Lukashenko made this statement during a meeting with the task force in charge of developing the final draft of the Constitution.

Recently, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland were reporting the growth of the number of illegal migrants from the Middle East and Africa who were arrested on the border with Belarus and were blaming Minsk for causing the migration crisis. Minsk refutes all the allegations. In regard to the situation, the President of Belarus declared a state of emergency in the territories bordering Belarus and engaged the army and police in border protection. Lukashenko stated that Minsk will no longer restrain the flow of illegal migrants to EU countries, adding that ‘there is neither money nor power’ for that due to sanctions from the West. Belarusian border guards have declared several times that Lithuania, Poland and Latvia have forcefully exiled the migrants to the territory of Belarus. Last week, a spontaneous camp of nearly 2,000 refugees was formed near the border between Belarus and Poland.