The White House accused the Belarusian authorities in organizing the flow of migrants on the border with Lithuania, said the US presidential assistant to Jake Sullivan during a telephone conversation with the Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrid Shimonite. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
In the course of the conversation, the assistant president expressed support for Lithuania, which faced an “attempt to coercion from China.” “The United States highly appreciates the principal position in the foreign policy of Lithuania on the support of democracy and human rights, including in Belarus,” the report says.
also indicates that Sullivan condemned the regime of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko for organizing the flow of illegal migrants across the border.
Earlier, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States Audra Plepitis stated that the largest threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country comes from Belarus, and not from Russia. According to her, Minsk purposefully destabilizes the socio-political situation in Lithuania through hybrid attacks.
In late May, the EU countries began to report on the brewing migration crisis. Large groups of migrants from the Middle East and Africa began to penetrate the territory of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland on the part of Belarus. In what is happening, European countries accused Minsk.