TASS: EU convened an emergency meeting of Interior Ministry heads over the situation with migrants

"The EU Home Affairs Council will hold an emergency meeting on August 18 to discuss the migration situation in Lithuania, as well as around illegal crossings of the EU's southern borders (across the Mediterranean. -

)," the source said.

Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania announced that they plan to complete the construction of a fence along the entire length of the border with Belarus in two years.

The fence will be built on credit, the issue of financing from the European Union is still open, said the Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte.