Serious accusation against the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko: Lithuania accuses the neighboring state of increasingly using migrants as political weapons against the EU. It is now the official policy of the leadership in Minsk to send refugees across the border, said Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda yesterday before the EU summit in Brussels.
Nauseda accused the leadership in the capital Minsk of deliberately bringing more migrants into the country from Iraq, Iran and Syria in order to then deport them to the EU. Lithuania needs EU support in securing the border. “There are several additional flights from Minsk to Baghdad and other cities in the region,” criticized President Gitanas Nauseda. In the Belarusian capital Minsk, around 1,500 Iraqis are currently waiting to cross the border to the EU.
Demonstrative visit
Meanwhile, before the imposition of new sanctions, head of state Alexander Lukashenko visited a plant belonging to the Austrian chipboard manufacturer “Kronospan” yesterday. The Foreign Ministry in Vienna spoke of a “crude attempt to instrumentalize the company for domestic political purposes”, criticism also came from the opposition in the former Soviet republic.
