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Latvia requested assistance from Frontex several weeks ago, taking into account the rapid development of the situation on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, and two experts started working on Thursday.
This is the first time that Latvia has requested the involvement of Frontex experts in the surveillance of our state border, Pētersone pointed out.
At present, no pressure of illegal immigration has been observed at the Latvian-Belarusian border, but the border guard is following developments in the neighboring country.
It has already been reported that in response to the sharp increase in the flow of illegal immigrants across the Belarusian border, the Lithuanian government decided on Friday to declare a state of emergency. The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service has detained a record number of illegal immigrants – 150 people – at the Belarusian border last day.
The staff of the EU border guard agency Frontex will also start working on the Belarusian border on Friday.
Lithuanian officials suspect that the Belarussian regime is deliberately facilitating the flow of migrants across the border. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, in response to new EU sanctions, recently announced that Belarus would no longer protect Europe from illegal immigrants, drug trafficking and smuggling.
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