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According to R.Šimašius, the Vilnius city municipality received a request from the Minister of the Interior, Agnė Bilotaitė, to receive the migrants for at least 10 days.
“I’m not that optimistic about ten days, I think it could turn into a much longer period of time. But in proportion to the population and even more than in proportion to the population, of course, we will offer our own measures in which we will it can provide isolated temporary asylum, ”R. Šimašius announced at a press conference on Monday.
He said the municipality would only answer on Wednesday the question where the refugees could be received and how exactly its capital could house them.
According to the mayor, there are no possibilities of receiving people in the assistance centers and the option of schools is not ruled out.
R.Šimašius emphasized that the capital cannot promise comfortable conditions.
“But humanitarian conditions will be met. Definitely not hotels, it will be a simple option, not a complicated one,” he said.
We are not a country that will keep the door open, there will be a path paved with roses and here it will be very good.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Remigijus Šimašius
A living fence or shield is required
R. Šimašius said that he urges not to wrap words in cotton and send a message to the international community and potential migrants, whether they fly from Baghdad or Istanbul to Minsk, that “we are not a country that will keep the doors open, there will be a path paved with roses ”.
“It is obvious that our neighbor is waging a hybrid war and would very much like Lithuania to have a very clear answer to that.” For the moment, gathering immigrants near the border or somewhere else, bringing them in and accommodating them is the right thing to do. do for humanitarian reasons, but it is not enough, “said the politician.
R. Šimašius is convinced that a living fence or shield and other measures are needed to ensure that fewer migrants arrive.
“Today we have hundreds of problems, we can have tens of thousands of problems if they are not addressed in principle,” he said.
Kaunas did not receive a request for assistance.
Tomas Jarusevičius, spokesman for the mayor of the city of Kaunas, V. Matijošaitis 15 minutes On Monday, he claimed that the municipality had not received a request for assistance, which had been announced by Minister A.Bilotaitė.
“This morning we recovered all the possible recipients, but it seems that so far we have not received any official request to the municipality of the city of Kaunas with specific needs. So we would like to receive it first and then form a clear position for the city and provide feedback. ” 15 minutes he said.
Kaunas City Municipality Photo / V. Matijošaitis
The districts of Utena and Zarasai are ready to help
Other municipalities close to the Belarusian border are ready to help.
Zarasai District Mayor Nikolajus Gusev 15 minutes He said on Monday that on Monday the municipality is deciding which premises could house the new arrivals.
“On the 7th, we will try to provide accurate information on where we can house the migrants. We are looking for premises and I think we will find them. I don’t know how many we will accept now, but in such an emergency we will have to solve this problem,” said the mayor.
The mayor of the Utena district, Alvydas Katinas, also 15 minutes So far he has not been able to say how many migrants the district will accept, a discussion that will take place Monday afternoon.
And we are getting ready, well what are you going to do?
“And we’re getting ready, well what are you going to do? Maybe we will prepare a school, our Vocational Training Center could – it has dormitories, it has empty floors, so we will offer it as quickly as possible. We are considering – there is such a letter, so we must, “said the mayor.
Must spend 10 days in self-isolation
On Monday, representatives of the Varėna district, the municipalities of Druskininkai and Alytus stated that he had exhausted the opportunities and no longer had any vacancies. They asked other municipalities for help.
The mayor of the Varėna district, which welcomes some 160 foreigners over the weekend, announced on Facebook that A. Bilotaitė is requesting municipal assistance only for a period of 10 days; this is how long the self-isolation period lasts.
“Subsequently, the migrants will be transferred to modular houses, hangars built by the Ministry of National Defense, which will be in the municipality of Druskininkai, as well as a tent town, which can house more than a thousand migrants, is being prepared.” said the district chief wrote.
Later A.Kašėta15 minutes He clarified that this does not mean that the district’s help is needed only during that time: when more and more migrants arrive, one of the populated groups is likely to replace another.
Jurgita Šukevičienė, Deputy Mayor of Alytus District 15 minutes He said Monday that under the order, visitors have to spend 10 days in self-isolation.
“But we don’t have an exact date for his departure as of today,” he said.
The municipality of Alytus has not yet calculated how much the housing, food and hygiene conditions of the migrants will be decoupled, but the deputy mayor emphasized that the municipalities will be compensated from the state reserve.
The number of migrants is record
The State Border Guard Service (SBGS) reported that from Sunday morning to Monday morning, border guards detained 134 migrants from Belarus who were crossing the border illegally, according to preliminary data.
A total of 1,232 illegal immigrants were detained at the border with Belarus this year, a record number last week.
For the fourth day in a row, foreigners trying to enter Lithuania illegally often choose roads through the territory of the Druskininkai municipality.
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