Lithuanian conservatives have suggested imposing national sanctions against 39 members of the Belarussian regime, including President Alexander Lukashenko, his sons Viktor and Dmitry, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko, election officials and the heads of security agencies.
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Lithuanian MEP Petras Austrevicius says he could not travel to Belarus and his Polish counterpart Robert Biedron was deported from Minsk.
Alexander Lukashenko cannot be regarded as the legitimate president of Belarus because the presidential election was not free and democratic, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has told foreign media.
Lithuania's former president Dalia Grybauskaite on Thursday urged Alexander Lukashenko to leave Belarus amid continuing protests in the country over disputed presidential election results.
A wave of bloody protests was set off by the Belarusian government announcement that President Alexander Lukashenko's landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election. BNS on Tuesday asked the leaders of the country's political parties how Lithuania should react to these events.
President Gitanas Nauseda says the deployment of US troops to Lithuania is aimed at protecting people living in the country, not at intimidating Belarus.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called for unity while discussing the future EU budget during his recent visit to Lithuania, and also said that Western Europe wants to grow at the expense of its eastern neighbors.
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“I hope that things will not be all bad in Lithuania, that we will avoid various collapses, violent actions, against the opposition for example. We are constantly beset by various scandals involving the government, the cabinet. While performing investigations on prior cabinets, it is time to prepare...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko does not participate in Friday's Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels because of Moscow's decisions.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė is Thursday leaving for Brussels to attend the European Union's (EU) Eastern Partnership summit that should set guidelines for the organization's relationship with the six Eastern neighbours.
In the lead-up to the European Union's Eastern Partnership summit, officials in Brussels hail improving relations with Belarus, but promise Lithuania that they will keep up pressure on Minsk to ensure the safety and security of its Astravyets nuclear power plant.
"The summit in Brussels should be forward-looking, injecting new dynamism providing a clear political vision for the future of our Eastern Partnership. Differentiation is key. As our resources are limited, the principle of ‘more for more and less for less’ should be implemented. We should focus our ...
Belarus' opposition activists are skeptical about Brussels' decision to invite the country's authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, to the so-called Eastern Partnership summit in late November.
Six Lithuanian parliamentarians have not been issued visas to travel to Belarus for an opposition event in Minsk on Monday.
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has dismissed the statement by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko about training of armed provokers in Lithuania as fiction out of the blue.