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“According to our data, there are more than 10,000 people in Belarus, perhaps many more, who have been displaced from the Middle East, mainly from Iraq, but also from Syria to carry out a hybrid attack,” said the Lithuanian prime minister. Ingrid Simonyte Morawieckis said in Warsaw.
The Polish Prime Minister also stressed the importance of combating the propaganda of the Belarusian regime to prevent “A. Effectiveness of Lukashenko’s policy “.
“That is why we are speaking with one voice in Brussels, we are also speaking with one voice at the United Nations, in Washington,” Morawieckis explained.
In turn, I. Šimonytė stated that the countries protect the border, which is not only Lithuanian or Polish, but also the entire European Union. The Prime Minister stressed that Lithuania has to protect a relatively long section of the border compared to the size of the country, so this is a “pretty big challenge.”
“Unfortunately, we have to take steps to install a physical barrier at the border. “It is clear that intelligent systems alone, which are very well suited for catching smugglers, are not entirely suitable for such a hybrid attack,” he said.
The prime minister praised Morawieckis for the importance of fighting propaganda.
“I want to point out that the eastern neighbors have a characteristic that we have seen applied many times. They tend to blame other states for what they do themselves. For example, he accuses Europe of rewriting history, although he himself rewrites history to such an extent that he tries to forget the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact ”, taught I. Šimonytė.
“It is similar in this case when the countries that defend the eastern border of the EU are accused of propaganda for human rights violations or non-compliance with international conventions. “… Therefore, it is very important that we have been able to reveal together from the beginning what the whole mechanism of this crisis is,” he added.
I. Šimonytė declared that the illegal migration process to Lithuania and Poland is a “bad will” created by the Minsk regime.
Lithuania and Poland have faced an increase in illegal migration across the borders with Belarus in recent months. Officials accuse the Minsk regime of organizing migration flows and call it hybrid aggression.
This year, more than 4.1 thousand people illegally entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. migrants.
