A regional exercise is planned to test the agreed algorithms for closing the border with Belarus, Lithuanian Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė has said.
“Those criteria are already in place. We have agreed to hold some exercises involving our institutions,” the minister said on Friday after meeting in Vilnius with representatives from the Interior Ministries of Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Finland, Poland, and Norway.
She said that a test would be carried out “to see how the algorithm could work during such regional exercises”.
In late August, the interior ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland agreed that their borders with Belarus could be closed in the event of an armed incident involving irregular migrants.
“We want to have similar criteria and we are coordinating them,” the minister said on Friday.
Lithuania has closed two of its six border checkpoints with Belarus.
The Belarusian opposition has asked for humanitarian corridors to be left open for people fleeing the Belarusian regime’s crackdown.
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