Belarus says ready for dialogue with EU on migrant crisis

She said "we have always been ready. We are ready now and we will be tomorrow. It was not us who destroyed this dialogue," as she commented on the possibility of a conversation between President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Xinhua news agency reported.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed that the chancellor of Germany and the Belarusian president are ready to talk to each other, and hoped that it would happen soon.

In the past few days, Putin and Merkel held two phone calls on the migrant crisis on the Belarus-European Union border.