Russia won't take back refugees who crossed into Norway

11:53 - 26 January 2016

Russia won't take back refugees who crossed into Norway -Lavrov

"This means that they had deliberately stated false data about the purpose of their visit to the Russian Federation. This is why we do not want to admit these people back to Russia."

Moscow does not want to take back refugees who crossed into Norway from Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.

"The talk is about people who arrived in Russia with a purpose of either to work in Russia or to visit relatives. They had not declared their (true) purpose of visit as transit to Norway," Lavrov told his annual news conference.