Kasčiūnas: services are obliged to immediately return illegal immigrants to the territory of Belarus

“Officials from the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) are competent and experienced in applying tactical measures in such situations. The Lithuanian border must be protected by all legal means from any illegal crossing of the state border, as an instrument of the current hybrid aggression against Lithuania. People who intentionally try to cross the state border in prohibited places should be evaluated as people who intend to commit a criminal activity: the illegal crossing of the state border, ”says A. Bilotaitė in a press release from the Ministry of the Interior.

In order to protect the state border and deny entry to the territory of Lithuania, persons who intend to cross the border in illegal places have been instructed to force them to use legal means to cross the border or apply for asylum.

According to Laurynas Kasčiūnas, chairman of the Seimas Defense and National Security Committee (NSGC), the state border must be guarded and border guards cannot become employees of the hotel reception.

“For years, we have been talking about hybrid threats, the actions of hybrid aggression, but when faced with this phenomenon, we continue to follow outdated instructions and outdated thinking. Often and due to departmental closures.

The Lukashenko regime announced today the opening of additional flights to three more Iraqi cities. Illegal immigrants deliberately cooperate with the Belarusian regime and violate Lithuanian law violently, cynically and with impunity.
Migration can only be legal. Illegal migration as part of a hybrid attack only compromises the institution of reasonable political asylum.

I therefore welcome the determination of tonight’s executive to take tough action to stop the hybrid attack on our country by the Belarusian regime.

According to the resolution adopted at the extraordinary session of the Seimas in mid-July, in which we proposed to the executive to take “all measures to control and prevent the threat of hybrid aggression,” today the internal affairs services and immediately return them to the territory. from Belarus. I have always advocated the use of such tools, because it is the current situation that requires them.

Let us support the actions of the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) and other officials of the internal affairs system to help them defend the Lithuanian state border in the implementation of this decision ”, – soc. on the Facebook network he writes politicians.

Foreigners are invited to Belarus as a safe territory where military conflicts do not occur. This means that a foreign citizen who has come to Belarus for tourism purposes and has received the services for which he has entered that country must leave as legally as he did. However, the people arriving in Belarus are used to organize hybrid attacks on the border with Lithuania.

It should be noted that Belarus, having made decisions to apply the visa-free regime with many countries of the world, does not unilaterally implement the agreement on the legal regime of the border, and its border guard institutions contribute to the organization of the illegal crossing of borders. of the Republic of Lithuania. In Lithuania, an effective asylum procedure has been developed for people seeking a reasonable and legal application for political asylum, which can be used upon arrival through existing international border checkpoints or by requesting it from Lithuanian diplomatic missions in abroad.

Since the beginning of the illegal immigration crisis, SBGS has strengthened border security with Belarus, with the help of forces from other Lithuanian institutions, as well as officials from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and Estonia. . In addition, Lithuania has started to build a spiral barbed wire fence, a concertina.

This year, 3,832 migrants illegally crossed the border between Lithuania and Belarus.