Lithuania responds to Donald Tusk's announcement. "We have not been informed of border control"

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- The Lithuanian authorities were not informed by Poland about the introduction of controls on the Polish-Lithuanian border - said Giedrius Miszutis, spokesperson for the Lithuanian border guard. These words were in consequence to Donald Tusk's announcement of the anticipation of specified action. The Prime Minister stated that "steps will be taken to guarantee that people from the Lithuanian direction do not arrive illegally crossing the border".

Mishutis explained in his interview with BNS that the problem concerns secondary migration and stressed that "migrants detained by Poles illegally crossed the Belarusian-Latvian border, not Belarusian-Lithuanian".

The Ombudsman reported that this year Over 300 people have already been detained, most - Lithuania. He besides added that the number of attempts to illegally cross the border Latvia is much larger than Lithuania.

"Migrants see where it's easier to cross the border and go there," Mishutis noted.

Polish-Lithuanian border. Tusk does not exclude resumption of controls

Prime Minister Donald Tusk informed during the Monday press conference - referring to the situation on the border with Germany - that the Polish side had notified the German side of the anticipation of restoring control. "If there are cases that from our point of view are questionable, we will gotta reconstruct controls on the Polish-German border," said Tusk. As he added, "the same concerns the possible reintroduction of controls at the Polish-Lithuanian border".

- I'm sorry. We have invested quite a few effort, money, and, unfortunately, any sweat and blood, so that the east border with Belarus is tight," said Tusk. He announced that "steps will be taken to guarantee that people do not arrive from Lithuania to Poland"who are illegally crossing the border."

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This year A full of 890 illegal immigrants were not allowed into Lithuania. Last year there were 1002 attempts to illegally cross the border of Belarus with Lithuania. Since 2021, i.e. since the beginning of the migration crisis at the border of Belarus with the EU, Lithuanian border guards have prevented a full of 23,8 000 attempts to illegally cross the border.

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