Despite its membership in the European Union, Lithuania is in no hurry to show European solidarity in helping refugees from the Middle East, preferring to simply receive subsidies from the EU budget.
According to Valtnews, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielyus Landsbergis said that official Vilnius called on Baghdad to more actively participate in the readmission process, taking back refugees from among the indigenous Iraqis.
“Cooperation with Iraq on the voluntary return of Iraqis is proceeding smoothly, but we want more active assistance from Iraq in accepting its citizens, whose applications for asylum have been rejected and who will be forcibly expelled from Lithuania,” the Lithuanian courier quotes Landsbergis.
Earlier this week, Landsbergis met with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein in New York. The parties discussed the problems of the so-called “cold season” in Europe for migrants and agreed to continue cooperation.
Let us remind you that after Belarus stopped preventing refugees from crossing the Belarusian-Lithuanian border in the direction of the European Union in response to European sanctions, Vilnius and Brussels have repeatedly tried to blame Minsk for the migration crisis.