The closure of two of the six checkpoints (checkpoints) on the border with Belarus was delayed by Lithuania from 15 August to 18 August. It has been reported TASS.
The publication states that a meeting of the Lithuanian government will be held on August 16. In this context, they should discuss a draft resolution on a national amendment to the emergency provision, which provides for the suspension of checkpoints in Shumskas and Tveryachyus from 18 August.
Before that, Sulius Nekrashevičius, Deputy Head of the State Border Guard Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania. declarationHe said that the republic will conduct exercises of the structures included in the plan to cover the Belarusian border.
On August 9, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Arnoldas Abramavichyus said that the Lithuanian authorities will not completely close the border with Belarus. He added that in the near future the Ministers of Internal Affairs of the Baltic States and Poland will hold talks, one of the main topics of which will be the situation on the border with Belarus. Abramavičius stressed that the ministers will discuss the measures to be taken if their borders are closed completely.
Previously in Poland arrested Belarusian suspected of spying for Russia.