"One should not lie, then one will have no need to talk nonsense and make excuses," the president told journalists in the town of Širvintos, eastern Lithuania, when asked about Lithuanian institutions' response and the Belarusian president's threats. The president did not specify to whom she was addressing her remarks.
Grybauskaitė also said that following an investigation into the violation of the Lithuanian border "the whole information will be provided to the Lithuanian public and Swedish law enforcement."
Asked by BNS as to whether Lithuania has to provide legal assistance to Belarus, the president said: "I said about the border violation."
A Swedish PR company announced last month that several activists had flown into the territory of Belarus from Lithuania on 4 July and airdropped thousand teddy-bears with messages promoting the freedom of speech and human rights. Videos of the stunt were published online, they said.
Conflicting information was coming from different institutions in Lithuania at first, saying that they had not been informed about the Swedish flight but also did not initially record a border violation. However, an investigation was launched afterwards
The Belarusian authorities initially denied the fact such a flight took place. But after less than a month, President Alexander Lukashenko sacked the commander of the country's Air Force and threatened Lithuania with retaliatory actions. Belarus also ordered the Swedish ambassador out of the country, and later asked Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office for help in investigating the incident.
Lithuania 's law enforcement launched a pre-trial investigation into the border violation on 14 August. The probe is being carried out by the State Border Guard Service and controlled by the Prosecutor General's Office.
