H.E. Mr. Darius Jonas Semaska, Ambassador of Lithuania to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The current refugee crisis is moving the world. In Europe, the crisis proved that the continent lacks of preparation for the increasingly rising number of people on its borders. So far, the governments from the EU-states are trying to act in concert in finding fast solutions to deal with the high numbers of arriving migrants.
In the name of the Republic of Lithuania, President Dalia Grybauskaite , declares Lithuania’s support for the refugees: “We stand in compassion and solidarity with those fleeing war”.
As declared by the Ambassador of Lithuania to the Kingdom of the Netherlands HE Darius Jonas Semaska, Lithuania supports the proposal by the European Commission which plans the distribution of asylum seekers over the member states of the EU based on a quota system. According to the quota, Lithuania would need to accept 1105 refugees. Linas Linkevicius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, calls the proposal “reasonable”.
Lithuania’s prime minister, Algirdas Butkevičius, stresses the importance of cooperation in order to control and solve the refugee crisis: “We will address the current refugee crisis together with the rest of the Community”.
