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“First, react in general, identify this as a problem at the UN level,” G. Nausėda told reporters in New York when asked what action the organization should take.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the president called on the United Nations to help resolve the illegal migration crisis on the border with Lithuania, driven by the Minsk regime.
According to the head of state, the UN is a unique organization that “can both evaluate and condemn and take certain measures against those regimes that ignore the rules of the democratic world and behave as they please.”
He said he intended to raise the issue of illegal immigration at the October European Council. The objective will be to discuss the renewal of the immigration policy and the financing of the physical barrier at the border.
Continuing their visit to New York, G. Nausėda together with the Presidents of Latvia and Estonia Egils Levits and Kersti Kaljulaid met with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres.
The meeting discussed, among other things, the security situation in the region and the common challenges facing the Baltic States: the hybrid attack on Belarus, the influx of illegal immigrants organized by the regime and the Belarusian nuclear power plant that does not comply with international security. rules.
This year, almost 4,2 thousand people entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. illegal immigrants, most of them Iraqis.
Vilnius accuses the Minsk regime of organizing migration flows and calls it hybrid aggression. As a result, a state of emergency has been declared in the country.
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