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According to him, the Polish border guards have already worked in other European Union (EU) countries and outside the Community, which would not be a new experience for them.
According to A. Duda, Poland could contribute to the protection of the Lithuanian border with Belarus by coordinating the European Border and Coast Guard Agency “Frontex”.
Nausėda said she had asked the Polish president for help “both in terms of human resources and technical means.”
According to him, this is necessary so that “in the first place we can defend not the Lithuanian border, but the external border of the whole EU”.
“We must do everything possible to stop this flow of illegal immigrants,” said the Lithuanian president.
A total of 1,634 migrants were detained at the border with Belarus this year, significantly more than last year. Many of them are from the Middle East and Africa.
Lithuanian officials say the surge in migration flows is a hybrid attack organized by the Belarusian regime.
Minsk claims that European Union (EU) sanctions no longer deter migrants on Belarusian territory.
Promises an answer to Belarus
G.Nausėda stated that Lithuania will submit proposals to the EU to adequately respond to Belarus’ actions to incite the migration crisis.
“At EU level, Lithuania and other countries will make proposals for appropriate responses to the situation. We have been doing this actively in the past, we will actively do it in the future as well, and I am convinced that our friends and partners will understand, evaluate and they will support our proposals, ”said the President.
According to him, the Belarusian regime is currently desperate and, as a result, many of its actions appear to be dictated by a simple sense of fear or revenge.
However, this will not deter Lithuania from continuing to adhere to the principles and values of its foreign policy, said G. Nausėda.
“These values are not important to the current regime in Belarus, these values are important to the free people of Belarus, who will sooner or later create a free state of Belarus,” said the president.
“So that our efforts are definitely remembered with gratitude, because that is the direction of our foreign policy. We ourselves have experienced similar trials 30 years ago and we certainly will not deviate from these values and we will not allow anyone to intimidate us,” he added.
Lithuanian-Belarusian relations began to decline last year, when Aliaksandr Lukashenko’s regime began to grapple with the opposition after the presidential elections, and Lithuania became a haven for Belarusian politicians and activists.
Tensions escalated further when Belarus diverted a Ryanair plane to Vilnius in Minsk in May and arrested opposition blogger Raman Pratasevičius and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega.
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