hello again welcome to spotlight the interview show on r t i'm. guest of the show is on the news our jubilees lisa wayne here is now topping the organization for security and cooperation in europe not an easy task if we remember the problems they have to tackle the human rights abuses in. the situation in the transnistria in the garden. and so forth what's their fresh look at those problems let's ask the lithuanian foreign minister. just. people we see office and della reese accused the country's leader alexander lukashenko foul play during recent presidential elections that cost the office its license and the oversee chairman says little hope mr bush uncle can be talked into changing his mind but the lithuanian foreign minister drawn sociable is optimistic about the fact economic sanctions can have an means and he's also optimistic about

the frozen conflict in trans east korea hoping something can finally change for the better. minister welcome to the show thank you very much we'll spotlight my pleasure well. has assumed the chairmanship of the sea and one of the burning issues is the situation in neighboring neighboring to the twenty also of course to russia where the authorities have shut down the sea office what is your reaction to how we are going to act i doing to try to reopen the office of course it's our intention to pursue. to reopen but we would like to. in this case the office would keep the same meaning for. yes but it'll be this some

content not just the creation but to be very frank i very much hope despite of all countries including russia united states. minsk to close this office what next i think the next step is just. to be present especially now and i think some trials are coming just to keep the monitoring situation and now we are working on that well as far as the e.u. intrigue is set of sanctions. against the us which moscow considers to be counterproductive so what makes year i mean what makes the europeans think that these sanctions are going to work i think with sanctions maybe they do not have very much would say economical consequences but they have i would say moral and

psychological meaning and that's why one hundred fifty seven names. i would say put on a visa ban your opposite number in poland rather sluff sikorsky he's quoted as saying that he's convinced that quote alexander look i shan't go faces a popular uprising such as those taking place in north africa unless he changes course and stop says crackdown on the opposition sooner or later sikorsky he will be forced to seek shelter in another country and quote well looking for a vilnius do you believe that look. really faces in uprising do you believe that his regime is doomed. you know i'm not a fiction is i'm not going to make such conclusions but i just would

like to look a little bit back i remember two fathers and six. immediately after the elections what we saw in belittles at the time five thousand people a few parties few n.g.o.s what we saw now after v.c. elections thirty five thousand people a huge amount of different parties n.g.o.s it means that receive it success is growing up and this is encouraging to me but after some time we will see the changes but really i don't want to speculate when it will happen i think our main effort is to help these two grow of the society i would say to support as we support it if you when we. are having only one university in exile in business. you're open to humanities university babbitt to follow isn't your russian students. learning. you have come to moscow so this

time to discuss a number of pretty important issues such as the situation in the trance and he steered the good and hard about situation so and so forth is there much difference between the approach to these issues in moscow in the us in brussels i would say seoul. brussels is. the birth of a very divided you know. moscow has very own interests. as well but i think some interests regarding the stability regarding. not inflaming more situation like. i think it's the same in all three mentioned points that's what i. would say but i'm quite satisfied with my discussions with my counterpart mr lavrov. because we found some common i would say points there we

could walk of course but they say that. like minded in one hundred percent it would be stupid but i must say one thing but i see very real prospect and real hope to make small i'm talking about very small changes in transnistria conflict and be agreed on some actions i mean on some events and i mean goal but. resume talks five two and here i. understood that we could expect some support from the russian side so we discussed the south the city issue at all with the russian foreign minister have you have you touched upon the matter of the readmission of the o.e.c.d. mission sets. i present at our view and i said that it will be fruitful to

i would say to extend the mission in the whole territory and. i must say that it will be not so easy. why because of the position of the russian side or because of the situation. i would take a much more easy situation. but what's russia is russia ready to have the receive mission that you know we have a different approach as you know and different treatment b. are not recognizing the so-called states. russia the us and this is makes a huge difference how we see visitation in the region. so the talk is about the status of the mission will that be a mission in a separate country or in the part of georgia so this is the problem but on the whole do you think it will be worthwhile to have such a sham a hotel after. because i see this mission as

a tool for implementing confidence building measures starting from simple thing not to block water to each other on the border and creedence not to close the gas to each other and something like that just to help people to live their daily life less or more normally start from that from scratch and this mission would be very helpful but unfortunately i think as you have just proved by answering my previous question the situation in south the city. for diplomats it's a purely political matter it's a diplomatic matter here well and it's important to understand this is very important but for people there i mean it's different it's not diplomacy stopper it's still life so if both sides russia the european countries even georgia if they want their people to live better to help them do you think we

can overcome someday these political issues or they will remain there forever i think it takes a lot of time and the band and it will depend on that i would say very simple simply on the canonical situation in georgia if georgia really succeed in their fast economical development as we see now some good good good i would say probably all of this you know could happen. and if not. you know then you you know i think the situation would remain the same remain the same for years and years of course you see we be see and it's not a secret we see some military building in this region which makes very i would say unhappy because the military building means what tensions. and. i would say russia. will not

abandon. this military building i think not not much hope. when you discuss issues like like the trends the light like city have with your colleagues here in moscow. do you find yourself in a situation when you and the stand each other perfectly that i mean well you speak the same language here's what should do you feel that that the system of thinking is the same that you want to achieve both achieve the same goals and have common enemies are not in some cases he has let's take a positive this is a let's take a cut above we both know but dissertation is becoming dangerous day and day more and more and means that it makes us. very much including

russia including. including countries because what we're afraid before but one day visitation could go under control and we'll have you know i don't want even to mention in what but here. very like minded and he really talked very sincerely want to be could do and of course to be very much revenue the t.v. over the russian leadership in threatening to appease both leaders from both countries says live thing in foreign minister. he's talking to us in the spotlight we'll be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us we'll continue this interview in a less than a minute. well

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yes. i am. i am. walking back to spotlight i'm al gore in love and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is all the newest is the foreign minister mr hugh. we're here in moscow and you were holding talks and i'm sure you talked about compensations this is one of the issues that lithuania has been has been discussing and it's been a dispute between your country and russia for

a pretty long time one of them is is that compensation from russia for the soviet assault on the television tell you remember that thing when went through and he was gaining independence do you really think that russia that the russians should have federation should pay up for that first of all what we need and what we've discussed it's about common understanding this is the biggest challenge but here i see even some prospects very i would say. very in march encouraged by the duma recent decision on stalin is by your president medvedev statements few statements on that but what now we are talking about common understanding of our i would say cruel and difficult common past this past divides us and put a box a clearly. unites. but first of all i think we should.

discuss them ourselves and to find common the relation on other hand if you will look to the legal documents. the first three to about established states relations signed by president fields and president landsberg in one thousand nine hundred one said clearly. nine hundred forty an accession that's what from a legal point we do not have some disagreements but from i would say feelings from a separate and political elite in russia it's another question let's not now we are encouraged we are talking about compensation we are talking now how to encourage work of our unique i would say a common. historian group how to encourage very fast now we are going to publish a second volume on relations. will be

about very sensitive period of our bilateral relations ninety nine nine hundred but they're walking we're finding common ground that's what encourages me but i don't want to say very bluntly yes we are talking about money a compensation no compensation could be different but first thing is to get a common understanding of the past but if we talk about common understanding listen when gorbachev was still the president of this country and after that attack on the vilnius tower happened you remember after that yeltsin who later became president of russia he t. toured the bolton country then he condemned this attack and he even called upon gorbachev to resign absolutely over over these events events in your country so so it wasn't that enough. i would say so. but no it's not since time so this is a country the second figure is time to time the listening the

open denial of our past and open denial of not just words and statements but even of a history of a past that's what we should walk together you know i would say quite quite a long time ok i'm not a historian i'm a journalist so my next question isn't about history. about figures like though thirteen in parliament passed a law on compensations wish to live twenty or will seek from russia for the entire period which you mentioned nine hundred forty nine hundred ninety one do you have the so the amount. how much no it was first of all it was a referendum not a law it was a referendum became a law after that yes of course the law which. every goal meant.

to try to resolve these questions about a compensation. but i must say that it requires a lot of patients out of common understanding and we are not talking on. brother russian police payoffs i think personal sacrifice as well and a lot just just. read. those units in. famous writer both of these terrible periods and you will see how many russians names it's mostly russian names. cruelties in the snow we'll see about all these gulags and so on that's what we're understanding but we would like that russia and the political it wouldn't stand also our pain and just after that we could talk about and but i don't want to be specific i don't want to be to streamline and to say look we have talking about is money no. ok now listen if you don't talk about

specific figures let's talk about principles i like putting the question to different historians and politicians recently we discussed it with the body of polish colleagues now asking it to you a group of experts of scientists are working over the so-called difficult questions of history yours and ours russians and lithuanians well what would you say who should write history today politicians or historians schools who should lead first of the story that is written by politicians what well maybe maybe it's what's what's in the politicians what's because the boredom of the first one which was published two years ago was written by historians by historians. no no politicians but what even now we agreed with my colleague mr lavrov to create a form of confidence from both countries and we agreed that no one politician could

be a member was a form of trust and now we're working on that and i think that quite soon we will get let's say fifteen people from fifteen from either side who will. i would see through to make a bridges. we still have a religious we are still have a good relation for example let's take about our daily life our business is reached almost the same amount as it was before the crisis i mean we have a lot of things rich which are good but that's but that's why i don't want just to stick on some things which i unite. not unites us but which makes some kind of a beast between us ok let's talk about dreams coming true. let's yeah you know it is dreams come true this is the logo of gas probably so our lithuanian dream is coming through it it's. you know in this country i remember

free four years ago it was a very popular one what pragmatism and we are my to can discus well you are prevented i'm sorry for interrupting this over there where you are pregnant if you want to take over the gas transport system of the always belongs to guest i want to say that this is not going to happen you know. it's a private thing belongs to guys from like fourteen countries european. union now finished all making starting or going to start to be process i mean i'm bundling which would give more competition nobody's talking about. you know what does mean. and here we were simple. up to use very very very i would say clear we want to market the don't want a monopoly we don't like vertically integrated monopole is rich robbing our people

day by day you know that one hundred dollars more than germans per one thousand cubic meters but only for fifty dollars more than let it selections up paying more to yes at easter island but what's ok let's take about talk about lotteries why it's so because we just have a monopoly and europe decided to create a common market devote a monopoly it's not so well as the one hundred did you know what we did we created common market electricity between free country. and we did it in a similarly like skinnerian going through is that what we are getting now we of course as you know we shut down our nuclear power station but we're paying no we haven't auctions on electricity and via. buying from different russian companies these companies with electricity and it's cost much more than well.

he just called a drop. but if your gas dream comes true what will happen was called was president putin calls it a robbery what do you want to do so it's robbery here or robbery then is it a no win situation i would say do you want a compromise do you think you can find a compromise absolutely if. will play according to market rules the second question is i just want to clarify the situation. just recently a few days ago a prime minister mr computers went to brussels and had a meeting with mr bowles of mr van rompuy mr were together they all free expressed strong support for the fee and actions but then you find guys pro-forma from an uprising the market they can find if they don't know the questions about it first but on energy and the question is very simple now we are going step by step we are

not in a rush but been very persistent and very much convinced that to be do need real gas market in phoenix i'm not going to speculate how we are going to do what i don't compromise sports abedin already no i just want to say a very simple thing that we would like to see the market. we do have a market now on oil. he always said yes because we had that yeah yeah you did have the facility yes that's what i needed to. project to dive. i am not going to discuss now on one on a particular logic because i am not so competent. on that and just leave it to i would say to a specialist who who knows how much. could cause but we have a strong political will or. i would see. becoming one i would say soul or. on leaving.

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