Nausėda: part of the fence on the border with Belarus could appear before spring,



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“We need to rush harder to create institutions, contractors, a general contractor that will be responsible for the whole process. (…) The authorities are not the best entrepreneurs or project executors, “said the president in an interview with the news portal 15min.lt this Wednesday.

“I think it could be one of the energy companies that has experience in the implementation of infrastructure projects,” he added.

According to G. Nausėda, the proposal of the State Border Guard Service to build a border with cutting wire is an economically acceptable solution. The installation of a physical barrier of this type would cost a total of more than 152 million. euros.

“This is a fairly effective solution that we could implement in the first phase by next spring, and it would probably allow us to defend the border in the most sensitive places where we currently see the largest flow of migrants,” the president said.

He stated after discussing the issue with Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonyte.

The Prime Minister, for her part, said this Wednesday after the Government meeting that the Government intends to approve on Friday the bills necessary to accelerate the construction of the fence, which will be presented to the Seimas during the extraordinary session of the next week.

This year, more than 4,000 people crossed the border from Belarus into Lithuania. illegal migrants. That number is more than a dozen times higher than it was in 2020.

Lithuania has declared an emergency situation due to the increase in illegal immigration. The country’s officials take the position that the increase in migratory flows is an organized action of the Minsk regime against Lithuania.



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