Lithuanian president seeks EU solidarity over Belarus migrants.

Lithuanian president seeks EU solidarity over Belarus migrants.
Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda asked EU states to display solidarity amid the sharp rise in the number of illegal entrants to his country via Belarus.
"The protection of the EU's external borders is the joint responsibility of all member states," he wrote in a joint letter with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa to EU leaders.
Lithuania is in a difficult situation and needs help in the form of equipment to protect and monitor its border with neighboring Belarus, the letter said, according to a statement from the presidential chancellery in Vilnius on Sunday.
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Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko has repeatedly threatened the EU with allowing refugees from war zones to pass through in response to sanctions imposed on his country.
Lithuania, which has an almost 680-kilometer-long border with Belarus, is particularly hard hit.