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As a result, a government session will be held on Friday, followed by a closed session of the Seimas Budget and Finance Committee and the National Security and Defense Committee.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė mentioned that projects will be presented to the Seimas, which contemplate recognizing the construction of a physical barrier on the border as a project of special importance and granting it some reservations in public procurement, obtaining construction permits and others. procedures.
Parliamentary committees will also discuss the situation at the border on Friday. In a closed-door session, you will be presented with a project for the introduction of a physical barrier on the Belarusian border, your financing options, public procurement procedures and changes in legislation necessary for the smooth implementation of the project will be discussed. .
A joint decision by the Budget and Finance Committees and the Committee on National Security and Defense is also planned, calling for the physical border to be strengthened along the entire perimeter of the state border with Belarus as soon as possible.
To stop the influx of illegal immigrants on the border with Belarus, it is planned to install a double barrier: the construction of a Concertina barrier of sharp wire and a chain-link fence.
According to the proposal of the State Border Guard, it is planned to build a four-meter-high metal-reinforced wire fence with Y-shaped peaks on the 508-kilometer stretch of the border. In addition, they would be equipped with Concertina cutting wire.
SBGS estimates that the construction of such a fence would cost around 152 million. euros.
Lithuania has 670 km of borders with Belarus.
This year, more than 4.1 thousand people entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. migrants, many of them from Iraq.
Lithuanian officials call the increased migration flows a hybrid aggression by the Belarusian regime. As a result, a state of emergency has been declared in the country. A decision has also been made to turn around people trying to cross the border illegally, which has significantly reduced the flow of people.
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