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“The pause now gives us the opportunity to focus on asylum procedures, accommodation,” the deputy minister said at a press conference on Tuesday.
The ambassador for migration, Linas Linkevičius, told a press conference that flights from Iraq had been said to have been suspended for a long time, but we couldn’t be sure.
“You also have to take into account that there are more airlines, there are transit routes and the regime is looking for new transit routes,” he said.
The deputy interior minister, responding to the question whether there is no information that Belarus exploits the situation in Afghanistan in search of new migrants, said that Lithuania is extremely concerned about this.
“Intelligence is investigating possible scenarios, but there is concern that Lukashenko will try to open a new path to the European Union (EU), either by plane or by train. We are not yet informed, but of course we are concerned,” he added.
According to him, Afghan citizens have also entered Lithuania, but this happened before the events of Sunday, and these people have not lived in Afghanistan for some time.
According to A. Abramavičius, so far the focus has been on vulnerable migrants entering the country illegally.
According to the deputy minister, approximately 80 migrants, mostly from vulnerable groups, have been able to enter Lithuania in the last two weeks.
A representative of the Ministry of the Interior clarified that they were admitted on humanitarian grounds.
A. Abramavičius said that migrants from Iraq who had arrived illegally in Lithuania had already started to return to their country of origin.
According to him, about 4.2 thousand people currently live in Lithuania. migrants, two-thirds of them from Iraq.
The Migration Department, he said, has received 1,900 asylum applications.
We are seeing a sharp decline in the numbers.
Rustamas Liubajev, head of the State Border Guard Service, told a press conference that the growth of migration flows in Lithuania was noticed in March, and in April, 70 migrants who crossed the border illegally were detained.
“At the beginning of August, we are seeing a sharp drop in the numbers. This was achieved thanks to Lithuania taking additional measures at the border, firstly increasing the number of service agents,” he said.
According to R. Liubajev, Belarusian border officials do not respond to Lithuania’s requests to investigate border violations.
“We have had this situation since the end of last year,” he added.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Rustamas Liubajevas
According to the head of SBGS, efforts are currently being made to improve the living conditions of migrants, especially in view of the impending cold season.
The Ambassador for Migration, L. Linkevičius, also told a press conference that Lithuania lacks translators to enable them to communicate with migrants.
“We appreciate the support we receive from our partners.” We need interpreters, social and cultural mediators who speak Arabic and Kurdish so that we can communicate with the migrants and bring them back to reality, because they were deceived: they paid money to scammers and found themselves in a difficult situation, “said Linkevičius.
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