Lithuania urged EU to impose new sanctions against Belarus due to migrants

“Belarus uses illegal migrants as a political weapon.

This should not go unanswered.

We call on the EU to adopt the fifth package of sanctions against the regime of (President of Belarus Alexander) Lukashenko, ”TASS quotes the words of the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda called a meeting of the State Defense Council due to the migration crisis.

The border guards recorded a record figure for the number of detained immigrants from Asian countries trying to illegally penetrate into the interior of the country through the border with Belarus.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania, Agne Bilotaite, said that the length of the fence, which will be installed on the border between Lithuania and Belarus, will be 550 km.

The European Commission announced that it does not plan to finance the creation of barriers in Lithuania on the border with Belarus.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko noted that Minsk is engaged in the fight against illegal migration, "but only as much as necessary is beneficial ... for the country and financially possible."

Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei, in an interview with RT, commented on the statement of Lithuanian Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite, who announced the plans of the Lithuanian authorities to build a fence on the border with Belarus due to the increased flow of migrants.