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During the unannounced visit, the president met with local residents and says he heard their position before a meeting with political party leaders scheduled for Thursday.
“Meeting in Dieveniškės. Tomorrow, we will speak with party leaders about a common position and solutions to the migration crisis. This is not a problem for a government, several municipalities or several local communities. This is a problem for the whole of Lithuania, which we can only solve successfully together. Therefore, before tomorrow’s meeting, I met with the residents of Dieveniškės. “So that I can listen to your concerns,” the president wrote on his Facebook account.
The Interior Ministry had previously planned to host several hundred migrants for the first of September at the former Dieveniškės technical school.
However, the residents of Dieveniškės, who are organizing protests, say they are opposed to the accommodation of migrants on the city’s territory, as the place where the migrants are planned to be accommodated is a couple of dozen meters from the school operational.
Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė said on Wednesday that there are no plans to transport migrants to Dieveniškės at this time, but the city’s technical school is considered a reserved place to accommodate foreigners.
More than 3,000 people have already tried to enter Lithuania this year. illegal immigrants, Lithuania has declared an emergency situation due to its influx. The country’s officials take the position that the increase in migratory flows is an organized action of the Minsk regime against Lithuania.
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