EU interior ministers are holding talks on migration Wednesday against the backdrop of the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan.
The talks would also be on the bloc’s concern of the prospect of mass exodus of people fleeing life under the Taliban. The meeting was convened to address the influx of people at Lithuania’s borders, allegedly assisted by non-EU neighbour Belarus. More than 4,000 people had arrived so far this year, compared to fewer than 100 in the whole of 2020, according to Vilnius.In the past, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was openly threatened to let people from countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria cross the border into the bloc in retaliation to EU sanctions.
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