David SASSOLI, EP President, pays an official visit to Lithuania. He visits the Medininkai Memorial, the border point Medininkai/ Padvarionys (Lithuania/Belarus) and the NATO forces base in Rukla (Lithuania) with the Speakers of the Parliaments of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. He also gives a press conference: extracts.

RATAS, Jüri (EE)

visit

EU - Lithuania (T)

press conference

official visit

SASSOLI, David Maria (S&D, IT, S&D, IT)

Lithuania

MŪRNIECE, Ināra (LV)

ČMILYTĖ-NIELSEN, Viktorija (LT)

Official visit by David SASSOLI, EP President to Lithuania: visit to the Medininkai Memorial, visit at the border point Medininkai/Padvarionys (Lithuania/Belarus) and visit to the NATO Forces base

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Title: Official visit by David SASSOLI, EP President to Lithuania: visit to the Medininkai Memorial, visit at the border point Medininkai/Padvarionys (Lithuania/Belarus) and visit to the NATO Forces base

Outside of the Medininkai Memorial (1 shot)

Arrival of David SASSOLI, EP President, J&uuml;ri RATAS, Speaker of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament), Ināra MŪRNIECE, Speaker of the Saeima (Latvian Parliament), Viktorija ČMILYTĖ-NIELSEN, Speaker of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament), (2 shots)

Tribute to the Medininkai Memorial (4 shots)

Visit at the border point Medininkai/Padvarionys (Lithuania/Belarus), (7 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Lithuanian), Viktorija &#268;MILYT&#278;-NIELSEN, Speaker of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament), I think it is very important that the President, who visited the Parliament today, had the opportunity to see what challenges we have to challenge. Perhaps, this is our experience that can become an example and a useful experience for colleagues in Latvia.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), David SASSOLI, EP President, I must thank the authorities of Lithuania for all the efforts they are making for our safety. The activity we have just visited, about control of the border with Belarus, is clearly an effort that is for our security, for the security of the entire European Union. We are in a crisis because, beyond the border, a liberticide regime wants an aggressive confrontation with us. And of course, we cannot permit that this aggression will not have an answer. Indeed, with strength, as a European Parliament we will continue to ask for the freedom of opponents who are imprisoned in Belarus, and we will always consider a hostile act this miserable use of men, women, migrants, that the regime is making, trying to put the responsibility on Lithuania and all the Baltics.

SOUNDBITE (English), J&#252;ri RATAS, Speaker of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament), <p>By attacking Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland, Lukashenko attacks the European Union. We have to stand against these attacks together, our way of standing against the attacks is keeping the need to resolve the crisis under attention.</p>

SOUNDBITE (English), In&#257;ra M&#362;RNIECE, Speaker of the Saeima (Latvian Parliament), <p>The EU should find new solutions to react in this situation that involved not only the illegal immigration, but instrumentalization of people on the EU border as well.</p>

David SASSOLI, EP President visit the NATO forces base in Rukla (Lithuania), (12 shots)