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Belarus: Lukashenko ponders cutting gas supplies if EU levies more sanctions over migrants
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Alexander Lukashenko has said Belarus "must respond" if the European Union imposes new sanctions against his regime over the influx of migrants on the country's western border.
Thousands of migrants remain stuck out in the open in harsh conditions on the Belarusian-Polish frontier amid the standoff between Minsk and the EU.
The Belarusian leader raised the possibility of interrupting the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which crosses Belarus from Russia in supplying gas to EU countries, Germany and Poland in particular.
"We heat Europe and they are threatening to close the border. And what would happen if we cut off the natural gas which goes there? I would therefore advise Polish, Lithuanian and other harebrained leaders to think before speaking,"
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