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Lithuania last December withdrew from Ottawa Convention prohibiting the use, stockpiling, and production of anti-personnel mines (Photo: State Border Guard Service / Lithuania)

Lithuania sounds alarm over possible arms-smuggling balloons from Belarus

Lithuania has warned that balloons, currently used to smuggle cigarettes over the border from Belarus, could soon be repurposed to transport weapons, as Vilnius considers deploying anti-personnel mines along their shared border.

Rustamas Liubajevas,

Lithuania last December withdrew from Ottawa Convention prohibiting the use, stockpiling, and production of anti-personnel mines (Photo: State Border Guard Service / Lithuania)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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