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“If the officers are in that place at the time, if the officers realize that the person is requesting asylum, then the officer must accept it, start the asylum application procedure.
I want to point out that we still have an emergency situation with Covid-19 at this time, so we are not starting those procedures right away.
We still have to assess those people and only after that do we start the asylum procedure, “R. Liubajev said at the press conference.
The SBGS commander could not deny that the same deterrent measures for the illegal entry of immigrants into the territory of Lithuania will work against the citizens of Belarus fleeing to our country from the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.
“When we build engineering facilities, we cannot anticipate opportunities for those people to come in any other way.
However, it is still possible to enter through checkpoints. Of course, at the moment there may not be as many people from the Belarusian opposition coming to Lithuania through the checkpoints, ”said the SBGS commander.
When asked how the border guards would separate at the fence, whether they were Belarusians, Iraqi nationals or other migrants, he replied that there would be no need for distribution.
“As the head of the SBGS service can say, we should not distinguish whether he is a citizen of Belarus or a citizen of another country.
If a person is on the state border, if they are applying for asylum, then we have to assess the situation and accept their application, “Liubayev said.
A fence will be built on the border with Belarus for 41 million. euros
Interior Minister A. Bilotaitė stated that a decision had been made to build a fence on the border with Belarus to manage the increase in illegal migration flows.
“The construction of the barbed barrier has started today, it is planned to build 550 kilometers and the decision has been made to start building a fence with the Belarusian border. We see that we could do it fast enough, the cost of such a fence would be about 41 million. euros ”, said A. Bilotaitė.
“It would all look like this: we built a barbed barrier and we built a fence in parallel. When building the fence, we will use a barbed barrier, which will be double protection, ”said the Minister.
“We will do everything possible to do it in the shortest time possible. <...> In terms of opportunities and time, ”A. Bilotaitė asked reporters when it was planned to build a barbed wire fence.
19 times the number of migrants
This year, 1,546 illegal immigrants from Belarus tried to enter Lithuania. That number is nineteen times higher than in 2020. Last year, 81 of those foreigners were detained at the border with Lithuania. 2019 46 illegal immigrants were caught by border guards in 2018; – 104, 2017 – 72.
Among those arrested on the border with Belarus this year there are mostly Iraqi citizens or foreigners who have come forward to them: 680, 200 Congolese, 118 from Cameroon, 82 from Guinea, 68 from Iran and other countries have also been arrested.
Border guards are still clarifying the citizenship of some migrants, as many of them do not have documents.
From Thursday morning to Friday morning, border guards, according to preliminary data, detained 37 migrants from Belarus who crossed the border illegally, the State Border Guard Service reported.
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