Lithuania unable to grant asylum to all Afghanis who helped Lithuania troops - DefMin

  • 2016-04-25
  • BNS/TBT-STAFF/VILNIUS
According to Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, not all Afghan nationals who helped Lithuanian troops in Afghanistan do not always deserve to be relocated to Lithuania.  His comments came after another Afghani national, Nazir Honar, who assisted Lithuanian forces called for asylum within the country.  A recording of Honar's statement from a refugee camp in Greece was published on YouTube by U.S. journalist Josh Friedman last week. In the recording, Honar said he worked for the United Nations-funded peace and inte...
 
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