Statement of the BSPC Standing Committee

Hamburg, 15 November 2021Statement of the BSPC Standing CommitteeThe participants, elected representatives from the Baltic Sea Region States,assembling in Hamburg on 15 November 2021, adopted the following statement:The Standing Committee of the BSPC,in view of the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation at the border of Poland and Lithuania with Belarusreferring to the various resolutions of the Security Council of the United Nations that condemn any form of human trafficking in the strongest possible term,voices its deep concerns about the insufficient access for humanitarian organisations to provide basic humanitarian services to refugees and migrants;strongly demands of the Belarusian authorities to allow full access to humanitarian organisations to provide food, shelter and medical assistance to those refugees and migrants suffering at the border;requests the countries in the region to fully cooperate in and contribute to stopping the practice of organised human trafficking to the BSPC member states and furtherurges all countries and international institutions to act responsibly, minimising human suffering.