MOFA: Migrants through Lithuania were subjected to deception

INA – Baghdad 
 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs – MOFA confirmed that immigrants through Lithuania were subjected to a major deception.
 
"The temporary charge d'affaires to Warshaw, Plenipotentiary Minister Hussein Mansour Al-Safi, confirmed Iraq's refusal to use its children in international conflicts from which they are far from,'' according to a statement by the ministry, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA). 
 
 "The permanent Iraqi constitution guaranteed every citizen the right to travel and emigrate voluntary,''
"The Iraqi immigrants are deceived, and they deserve care from both countries, and the difficult situation in which some families live in the camps,''
 
The statement included that ''the Iraqi government's interest in listening to more proposals from the Lithuanian side regarding solving the problem of immigrants and what the Lithuanian government can offer to encourage them to return voluntarily, especially since they were subjected to a major deception by smuggling mafias that cost them large sums of money and used them as a tool in a political struggle in which they have no fault,''
 
This came during an official meeting via video technology, chaired by the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Kitanas Nausida, and organized by the Diplomatic Protocol Department of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the participation of the Lithuanian Border Guard Commander, ambassadors and representatives of the countries of Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, and the Congo.
 
For his part, the President of the Republic of Lithuania Kitanas Nausida valued Iraq's handling and cooperation in the issue of illegal immigrants flowing across his country's borders with Belarus, praising "the serious steps it has taken to control the increase in their numbers,''
 
The President of the Republic of Lithuania stressed that "his country respects the rules of international humanitarian law that emphasize respect for human rights, but it reserves its right to protect its borders and territorial sovereignty in the event of a threat to its national security and the security of the European Union to which it belongs,''