Lithuanian Prime Minister Šimonyte: Minsk provoked a migration crisis in response to EU sanctions economic pressure. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonyte spoke about this when answering journalists' questions at the border outpost in Kapčiamestis, BNS reports.
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As the reason for the influx of migrants to the eastern borders of the European Union (EU), she named the sanctions that the EU imposed on Belarus earlier.
According to Shimonyte, Minsk provoked a migration crisis, because restrictive measures of the European Union “hurt enough” the Belarusian economy.
At the end of June, the EU introduced the fourth package of sanctions against Belarus due to the incident with the emergency landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk. 166 individuals and 15 legal entities fell under them. Restrictions affected access to financial markets, markets for trade in oil products, potash fertilizers and tobacco products.
On November 9, it became known that against the background of the current exacerbation of the migration crisis at the Polish border, the EU was preparing to introduce the fifth package of sanctions against Belarus. It is noted that they may affect about 30 individuals and legal entities, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Vladimir Makei and the Belarusian airline Belavia.