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Vilnius, Aug 4 (EFE).- (Camera: Juris Kaža) Lithuania's determination to reinforce its border with Belarus is in line with the obligation of this partner of the European Union (EU) to protect its eastern flank, he says the government of the Baltic country, which denounces the Belarusian intention to use illegal immigration as a "political weapon".FOOTAGE OF A FIELD OF MIGRANTS ON THE BORDER BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND BELARUS.SOUNDBITES OF THE LITHUANIAN PRIME MINISTER, INGRIDA SIMONYTE (IN ENGLISH).
Images released by Polish Police show the area along the border with Belarus close to the border town of Kuznica which has been entirely cleared of migrant encampments. Some 2,000 migrants who were living in freezing conditions at the border have been moved to a nearby warehouse. The West accuses Belarus of artificially creating the crisis by bringing in would-be migrants, mostly from the Middle East, and taking them to the border with promises of an easy crossing into the EU. Belarus has denied the claim, instead criticising the EU for not taking in the migrants. IMAGES
Images released by the Polish Defence Ministry appear to show migrants being detained in a large group by Polish service personnel. The Ministry has said: 'Tonight, an attempt inspired by Belarus was made to illegally cross the border in Dubicze Cerkiewne. A group of about 100 migrants was detained by the Polish services'. IMAGES
The United States is preparing new sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, in coordination with the European Union, over the "inhumane facilitation" of migrant flows on its border with Poland. SOUNDBITE
Images show dozens of migrants waiting by the Kuznica-Bruzgi checkpoint on the Belarusian side of the country's border with Poland. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko says his country is working to repatriate the migrants who have amassed between the two eastern European countries. IMAGES of the migrants
The Bohoniki Muslim cemetery belonging to the centuries-old Tatar community in eastern Poland is to be the burial ground for a Syrian migrant who drowned in a river while trying to cross the border between Poland and Belarus. IMAGES of the cemetery
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