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A number of properties managed by Turto Bankas, state-owned enterprise that centrally manages state real property for administrative purposes, will be included in the network of shelters in three months’ time, Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė said Thursday.
A network of over 3,300 shelters has been established over the past year as part of efforts to strengthen public preparedness for potential threats, says the interior minister.
Nearly 60 percent of statutory officers are set for pay rises from 1 January, with the wage bill totalling more than EUR 500 million this year. This is almost half of the internal system’s budget, says the interior minister.
The latest kidnap in Kaunas does not suggest security has worsened in the country as child abductions in Lithuania are exceptionally rare, says Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė.
Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says a number of different institutions across the country have received a total of 900 emails with hoax bomb threats.
Responsible authorities have agreed to build a physical barrier on marshy areas at the borders with Belarus and Russia, the Ministry of the Interior said on Wednesday.
Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says her ministry has already drafted amendments to the law on foreigners’ legal status to enable a mechanism for issuing a foreigner’s passport to opponents of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime only.
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court (KT) has judged that forcible accommodation of migrants in foreigners’ registration centres after they had illegally crossed the state border was unconstitutional. Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says authorities started lifting restrictions on the movement of migra...
Lithuania's Interior Ministry has proposed extending the existing state of emergency, declared in the country in response to Russia's military aggression in Ukraine, until mid-December.
Lithuania's state of emergency on the border with Belarus is set to expire at 12 midnight on Friday.
Lithuania will swiftly switch back to a state of emergency mechanism in case of changes in the situation on its border with Belarus, Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite has said.
Some 250 control posts will be set up across Lithuania on weekends and during the holidays to enforce movement restrictions, Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite said on Tuesday.
Lithuania and Latvia will continue to carry out projects under the EU-funded cross-border cooperation program without Belarus, at least for now, Interior Minister Rita Tamasuniene said.
A total of 507 Belarusian citizens have been allowed to come to Lithuania on humanitarian, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
Lithuania has to date granted entry to 205 Belarusian nationals for special humanitarian reasons, including 54 who are already in the country, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
Lithuania has prepared a list of national sanctions against the Belarussian regime, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said on Wednesday evening.
Lithuania is lifting coronavirus travel restrictions for foreign students and investors, and people from Belarus seeking entry "for special humanitarian purposes".
Lithuania extended on Wednesday border controls at international airports and the seaport of Klaipeda until August 14.
Lithuania's Interior Minister Rita Tamasuniene has disqualified herself from any decision-making related to the distribution of EU funds for the Vilnius region where she resides.
Lithuania is ready to bring its citizens from China where a dangerous coronavirus is spreading, Interior Minister Rita Tamasuniene said on Wednesday.