Kasčiūnas: services are obliged to immediately return illegal immigrants to the territory of Belarus

“Officials from the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) are competent and experienced in applying tactical measures in such situations. The Lithuanian border must be protected by all legal means from any illegal crossing of the state border, as an instrument of the current hybrid aggression against Lithuania. People who deliberately try to cross the state border in forbidden places should be considered as people who intend to commit a criminal activity: crossing the state border illegally ”, states A. Bilotaitė in a press release from the Ministry of the Interior.

To protect the state border and deny entry to the territory of Lithuania, people who intend to cross the border in illegal places have been instructed to force them to use legal means to cross the border or asylum, to send people to the place of operations closest. international border checkpoint or diplomatic mission.

According to Laurynas Kasčiūnas, chairman of the Seimas Defense and National Security Committee (NSGC), the state border must be guarded and border guards cannot become employees of the hotel reception.

“For years, we have been talking about hybrid threats, the actions of hybrid aggression, but when we face this phenomenon head-on, we still tend to follow outdated instructions and outdated thinking. Often, and departmental closure.

The Lukashenko regime announced today that additional flights will be operated to three more Iraqi cities. Illegal immigrants deliberately cooperate with the Belarusian regime and violate Lithuanian law violently, cynically and with impunity.
Migration can only be legal. Illegal migration, as part of a hybrid attack, only compromises the institution of reasonable political asylum.

I therefore welcome the determination of tonight’s executive to take tough action to stop the hybrid attack on our country by the Belarusian regime.

According to the resolution adopted in the extraordinary session of the Seimas in mid-July, in which we proposed to the executive to take “all measures to control and prevent the threat of hybrid aggression”, the internal affairs services today and return them to the territory of Belarus Without delay. I am in favor of using these types of tools, because the current situation requires them.

Let us support the actions of the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) and other officials of the internal affairs system that will help them implement this decision – to protect the state border of Lithuania ”, – soc. on the Facebook network he writes politicians.

Foreigners are invited to Belarus as a safe territory where military conflicts do not occur. This means that a foreign citizen who has come to Belarus for tourism purposes and has received the services for which he has entered that country must leave as legally as he did. However, the people arriving in Belarus are used to organize hybrid attacks on the border with Lithuania.

It should be noted that Belarus, having made decisions to apply the visa-free regime with many countries of the world, does not unilaterally implement the agreement on the legal regime of the border, and its border guard institutions contribute to the organization of the illegal crossing of borders. of the Republic of Lithuania. In Lithuania, an effective asylum procedure has been developed for people seeking a reasonable and legal application for political asylum, which can be used upon arrival through existing international border checkpoints or by requesting it from Lithuanian diplomatic missions in abroad.

Presenting the decision on the LRT television program “Dienos Tema”, A. Bilotaitė stated that international law allows the return of migrants if that decision is temporary and if they are offered an alternative opportunity to apply for asylum.

According to A. Bilotaitė, foreigners are invited to Belarus as a safe territory where military conflicts do not occur.

According to the Interior Ministry, this means that a foreign citizen who has come to Belarus for tourism purposes and has received the services for which he came to this country must leave as legally as he did.

Since the beginning of the illegal immigration crisis, SBGS has strengthened border security with Belarus, with the help of forces from other Lithuanian institutions, as well as officials from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and Estonia. . In addition, Lithuania has started to build a spiral barbed wire fence, a concertina.

This year, 3,832 migrants illegally crossed the border between Lithuania and Belarus.