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Lithuania

Government & Politics

EU calls for action to beef up Lithuania’s Belarus border

July 29, 2021 Lorne Cook  

(AP) The European Union’s top migration official is urging member countries to help Lithuania beef up surveillance on its border with Belarus and not to give in to political pressure from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Lithuania’s border guard service said it detained […]

Immigration

On Belarus border, EU guards patrol amid migrant ‘crisis’

July 20, 2021 Marielle Vitureau  

(AFP) With a pair of binoculars, a German police officer working for the EU border agency Frontex scans an empty field crossed by the Belarus-Lithuania border on the lookout for migrants. The Baltic EU member state has seen more than 2,000 arrivals […]

Government & Politics

EU border agency to police Lithuania-Belarus frontier from next week

July 19, 2021 Andrius Sytas and Janis Laizans  

(Reuters) European Union border agency Frontex will deploy 60 border guards with helicopters and vehicles to Lithuania’s frontier with Belarus next week, after a surge in migrants crossing illegally, which the EU says has been orchestrated by Minsk. In response to EU […]

Government & Politics

On Lithuania’s plea, Iraq to probe human smuggling to Europe

July 15, 2021 Samya Kullab  

(AP) Iraq’s foreign minister said Thursday his government would investigate trafficking networks responsible for smuggling hundreds of Iraqis into Europe, specifically via Belarus to Lithuania. Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein made the promise after a meeting in Baghdad with his visiting Lithuanian counterpart, […]

Government & Politics

Lithuania struggles with migrant influx opened by Belarus

July 14, 2021 Liudas Dapkus and Mstyslav Chernov  

(AP) Mustafa Hussein Hamad kicked a dirty ball between two old tires in the schoolyard where he spends most of his time. He and dozens of other migrants are fenced in at an old school after walking at night through the thick […]

Government & Politics

Lithuania, EU say Belarus using refugees as ‘political weapon’

July 12, 2021 Robin Emmott, Sabine Siebold and Andrius Sytas  

(Reuters) Lithuania’s foreign minister and the EU’s top diplomat accused Belarus on Monday of using illegal migrants as a political weapon to put pressure on the European Union because of the bloc’s sanctions on Minsk. Belarus was flying in migrants from abroad […]

Government & Politics

EU border agency to ‘significantly’ step up Lithuania help

July 11, 2021 Jari Tanner  

(AP) The European Union’s border agency is pledging to “significantly” step up its support to Lithuania in the coming days “due to the growing migratory pressure at Lithuania’s border with Belarus” that the Baltic nation is trying to contain. The decision by […]

Government & Politics

Lithuania builds border fence to stem migration from Belarus

July 9, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Lithuania began Friday to erect a fence along its border with Belarus to deter third-country migrants from entering, a week after Vilnius declared a state of emergency to address a sharp rise in migratory flows — which it says Belarusian authorities […]

Government & Politics

Lithuania says Belarus is flying in migrants, plans border barrier

July 7, 2021 Andrius Sytas  

(Reuters) Lithuania on Wednesday accused Belarus of flying in migrants from abroad to send to the European Union and said it would build a barrier on the border and deploy troops to prevent them crossing illegally into its territory. Belarus decided to […]

Government & Politics

EU condemns Belarus ‘pressuring’ Lithuania with migrants — Michel

July 5, 2021 Andrius Sytas  

(Reuters) The European Union “speaks with one voice” in condemning a decision by Belarus to allow illegal migrants to cross into Lithuania in response to EU sanctions, European Council President Charles Michel said on Monday. The Lithuanian government declared a countrywide emergency […]

Government & Politics

EU’s von der Leyen says flow of illegal migrants from Belarus ‘politically motivated’

July 2, 2021 Andrius Sytas  

(Reuters) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday pledged support for Lithuania, which is experiencing a quickly growing flow of migrants though its 679-kilometre border with Belarus. The Lithuanian government declared a country-wide emergency on Friday as 150 migrants crossed […]

Government & Politics

Belarus leader: We won’t stop migrants from heading to EU

June 23, 2021 Yuras Karmanau  

(AP) Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has warned that his country will not try to stem a flow of illegal migrants to the European Union, a move that comes after the EU tightened its sanctions on the country. The EU and the […]

Government & Politics

Lithuania says Belarus could be behind recent migrant influx

June 7, 2021 Liudas Dapkus  

(AP) Lithuania has detained nine Iraqi asylum-seekers who had entered the Baltic country from Belarus, officials said Monday, pointing a finger at Belarus for allegedly being involved in sending repeated groups of immigrants into Lithuania. “It is obvious that a hybrid war […]

Crime

Migrants: Arrests over small boat supply to people smugglers

November 26, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration by supplying small boats to people smugglers. It follows an arrest in October as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into a criminal network. Officers […]

Government & Politics

Foreign ministry: Lithuania bans entry to Hezbollah affiliates

August 13, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(Delfi) The Lithuanian government has banned entry to people linked to the Hezbollah paramilitary movement which it regards as a “terrorist organization.” “Hezbollah-affiliated persons were banned from entering Lithuania,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday, adding that the ban […]

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