At an extraordinary meeting on Friday, the Latvian government decided to provide humanitarian aid worth 123,900 euros to Lithuania to resolve the refugee crisis.
In order to provide humanitarian aid to Lithuania, the ministers decided to send three tents, three electricity generators, five lighting kits, five metal coils with cable lighting kits and 3,000 blankets from Latvia’s state material reserves as humanitarian aid.
It is expected that the State Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) will organize the delivery of the humanitarian aid consignment to Lithuania. Transportation costs could be around € 500 and business trips for employees around € 150.
The Ministry of the Interior (MoI) was informed that on 15 July this year, the SFRS, as the national contact point for Latvian civil protection, received an e-mail from the European Emergency Response Coordination Center regarding the emergency situation in Lithuania related to the flow of illegal migrants.
The ministry stressed that the number of illegal migrants crossing the Belarusian-Lithuanian border has increased dramatically. On July 20 of this year, their number has reached 2,158, which is 26 times more than in 2020.
It has already been reported that European countries have responded to Lithuania’s request last week to help resolve the crisis of illegal migrants at the Belarusian border, where more than 2,400 foreigners, mainly Middle Eastern nationals, have been detained since the beginning of the year.
“We have been receiving help from other countries in recent days. (..) All these things are necessary for us to be able to accommodate migrants while their asylum applications are being processed. I thank all the countries that show solidarity with Lithuania in this difficult situation,” said the Lithuanian Minister of the Interior. Agne Bilotaite.
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