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The politician will meet with Foreign Minister Gabriel Landsbergis, and will also visit the state border with Belarus and visit the Padvarionys border checkpoint.
Tugendhat arrives in Lithuania together with the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Seimas Žygimantas Pavilionis in Jūrmala, where he participated in the meeting of the heads of the Foreign Affairs committees of the parliaments of the Baltic States and the United Kingdom.
“Tugendhat is a strict critic of the Russian regime and an active supporter of the democratic process in Russia and a politician who speaks out in principle about the challenges posed by China,” Pavilionis said.
“Therefore, his visit during the migration crisis in Lithuania, as well as in the context of Zapad’s upcoming military exercise and Lithuania’s pressure on China to condemn its human rights violations, has both symbolic and practical significance,” said.
This year, more than 4.1 thousand people entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. illegal migrants. Lithuania accuses the Minsk regime of organizing migration flows and calls it hybrid aggression. As a result, a state of emergency has been declared in the country.
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