Vilnius: Lithuanian Parliament will be on Tuesday debating whether to build a high metal fence on it with a razor wire on its border with Belarus to stop migrants who have been crossed in the amount.
The increasing number of migrants has reached Lithuania, Latvia and Poland from Belarus in recent weeks.
The authorities in these countries accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko used them to put pressure on the EU to reverse sanctions against their country.
If approved by the parliament, Lithuania will build a metal fence as high as four meters (13ft 1in) on it with a razor wire at 508 km (316 miles) from the limit of 670 km sharing with Belarus, at a cost of 152 million euros ($ 178) millions) , The Baltic news agency reported, quoted the Lithuanian state border service.
Parliament will also debate whether it will allow the Lithuanian military patrolling the border and while limiting asylum seekers to make their applications only in designated locations, such as border checkpoints or embassies, rather than at any point in the Lithuanian region.
At present only border guards are allowed to patrol the border.
So far, around 4,026 individuals have illegally crossed illegally to Lithuania, a country of 2.8 million residents, from Belarus, the Lithuanian interior department said in a statement on August 3, compared to a total of 74 in 2020.
The best came from Iraq , followed by the Republic of the Congo and Cameroon, according to the Lithuanian Border Guards Service.
The Lithuanian authorities said Belarus allowed these individuals to reach the Lithuanian border after they flew by plane to the capital of Belarus, Minsk.
Parliament debate over the fence starts on Tuesday.
Not immediately clear when the sound will take place.
In neighboring Latvia, around 160 people have been detained for crossing the border illegally from Belarus, the authorities said on Monday, encouraging the Minister of Interior Latvia to ask the government to declare an emergency on the border.
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Lithuanian parliament to debate the building fence on the Belarus border
