EU ministers urge action to protect juvenile political prisoners rights in Belarus 2021-06-01 BNS/TBT Staff
VILNIUS – Ministers from Lithuania and ten other EU member states have called on the European Commission and Josep Borrell, the bloc s foreign policy chief, to take action to protect the rights of juvenile political prisoners in Belarus and to seek their release, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Lukashenko s regime does not shy away from treating minors as a tool to pressure their parents who are being threatened with losing custody over their children for taking part in the ongoing protests, they said in a joint letter that was initiated by Lithuania.
They were working undercover.
Today, it has become known that Lithuania is expelling two Belarusian diplomats. The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry says the diplomats were expelled for their actions, incompatible with the diplomatic status and as a sign of solidarity with Latvia.
Later, head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry
Gabrielius Landsbergis wrote that the expelled Belarusian diplomats were intelligence officers, working under diplomatic cover. No thank you and goodbye, - he wrote on Twitter.
Two BY intelligence officers working under the diplomatic cover were asked to leave Lithuania. No thank you and goodbye. Gabrielius Landsbergis (@GLandsbergis) May 28, 2021
Lithuania Expelling Two Belarusian Diplomats Amid Uproar Over Plane Arrests
May 28, 2021 13:21 GMT
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Lithuania says it is expelling two Belarusian diplomats accused of conducting activities incompatible with their diplomatic status amid international outrage over Belarus’s forced landing of a Vilnius-bound passenger flight in Minsk and the detention of a dissident journalist.
The two members of staff at the Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius were given seven days to leave the country, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on May 28.
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said the decision was also “an expression of solidarity” with Latvia, which saw its entire embassy staff expelled from Belarus.
YEREVAN, MAY 28, ARMENPRESS. The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs congratulated Armenia on the anniversary of the establishment of the First Republic, ARMENPRESS reports, reads the Twitter page of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry.