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Poland, Lithuania and Latvia agree to strengthen cooperation to secure their external borders and counter hybrid threats, according to a statement from the Lithuanian government.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene and Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina adopt a joint declaration titled “Enhanced Cooperation on External Border Security and Countering Hybrid Threats.”
The declaration focuses on closer coordination in protecting the three countries’ borders, which they describe as part of the European Union’s external frontier.
Ruginiene says the countries in the region face “a common and continuously evolving challenge” in the form of hybrid threats.
“We clearly see that tactics tested by hostile regimes against one of our states are soon applied to the others as well,” she says.
She adds that this situation requires cooperation to move “to a new level,” including enhanced information sharing, joint exercises and coordinated response mechanisms.
Ruginiene emphasizes that the borders under discussion are “not only our national borders, but the external borders of the European Union.”
The three leaders underline the need for closer coordination to address what they describe as evolving hybrid threats affecting the region.
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