Agne Bilotaite

Poland and Lithuania want EU to help fund fence on the border with Belarus

"Both sides unanimously agreed that efforts should be made for the European Union to financially support the construction of the fence" on the border with Belarus, reads the statement from the Lithuanian Interior Ministry. Marcin Onufryjuk/PAP

Poland's and Lithuania's Ministers of Internal Affairs have said that their countries will strive for the EU to financially support the construction of fencing on both countries' borders with Belarus to help stem a migrant crisis they say has been instigated by the Belarusian side.

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