it's rush. we've got the future covered. hello again the welcome to spotlight the interview show on our t.v. . show is on the news our jubilance 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 on and so forth what's their fresh look at those problems let's ask the lithuanian foreign minister. because. people will see often some della reese accused the country's leader alexander lukashenko fall play during recent presidential elections that cost the office its

license and the oversee chairman says little hope mr lucas schenkel can be talked into changing his mind but the lithuanian foreign minister drama sociable is optimistic about the fact economic sanctions can have on mains and he's also optimistic about the frozen conflict in transit. hoping something 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 lithuania 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. intentions to

curse you for it is. to reopen but we would like to. in this case the office would keep the same meaning from us but it will be with some content not just the creation but to be very frank i do not have very much hope despite of all countries including russia united states. minsk do not close because office what 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 first and to send the e.u. introduce a set of sanctions. against the us which mosque 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 i 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 and less he changes course and stop says crackdown on the opposition sooner or later so sikorsky he will be forced to seek shelter in their country and quit 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. 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 billers 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 society 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 know it's going to be. having only one university in exile in

business. you're open humanities university where the two files and your russian students. learning. you have come to moscow this time to discuss a number of pretty important issues such as the situation in the transit needs to read the good and hard about situation so and so forth is there much difference between the approach to these issues in moscow in vilnius in brussels i would say so. brussels the. members of this 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 in the world. i think it's the same in all three mentioned points that's what i'm.

i would say that 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 to say that. like minded in one hundred percent it would be stupid but i must say one thing but i see the real prospect and real hope to make small i'm talking about very small changes in transnistria conflict and we agreed on some actions i mean on some events and now i mean goal but. resume talks five plus 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 what 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 hero absolutely because i see this mission as a tool for implementing confidence building measures starting from simple thing not to block what are to each other on the border and credence 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 and. for diplomats it's a purely political matter it's a diplomatic matter and well and it's important to understand this is very important but for people there i mean it's different it's not diplomacy it's not

but 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 that takes a lot of time and the band will depend on that i would say very simple simply on the canonical situation in georgia if georgia rule succeeds 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 with remain the same remain the same for years and years of course you see b b c and it's not a secret we see some military building in this region which makes us very i would

say unhappy because 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 trials 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 i mean well you speak the same language here's a letter 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 here so let's take a look at a positive this is. let's take

a car bomb we both know but the situation is becoming dangerous the day and day more and more. means that it makes. very much including russia including. including a country 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 talked very sincerely want to be could do and of course to be very much for having vexed 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 the spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us we'll continue this interview in a less than

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welcome back to spotlight i'm alvin often just a reminder that my guest on the show today is aldrin yes it's 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 the two any has been has been discussing and it's ability to speak 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 when to any 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 the some prospects. very i would say. very 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. secondly. 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 treaty about established states relations signed by president fields and president lands were used 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 that'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 common. historian group how to encourage very fast now we are going to publish a second volume on relations. will be about a very sensitive period of our bilateral relations ninety nine nine hundred but they're walking a fine a common ground that's what encourages me but i don't want to say very bluntly yes we are talking about my neighbor compensation no compensation could be different but first thing is to get a common understanding of the past but if we talk about common descent 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 tito out of the boat in 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 now 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 warts 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 the third in parliament passed

a law on compensations wish to look twenty or will seek from russia for the entire period which you mentioned nine hundred forty nine hundred ninety one do you have the sum 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 for. every goal meant. to try to resolve these questions about her compensation on. but i must say that it requires a lot of patients out of common understanding and we are not talking on. brother russia's police payoffs i think. as well and a lot just just. read. those units in. famous writer both of these terrible period and you will see how many russians names it's mostly russian names. cruelties in the snow will say about all these

gulags and so on that's what we're understanding but we would like that russia and the political it would in the 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 body of polish colleagues now and asking it to you a group of experts of scientists are working over the so-called difficult questions of history. and russians and lithuanians well what would you say who should write history today politicians or historians screws who should live or of their story it is written by politicians what well maybe maybe it's what's

what's in their 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 with this form of trust and now we are working on that and i think that quite soon we will get let's say fifteen people from fifteen from other 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 obesity between us ok let's talk about dreams coming true get a little yeah you know it is dreams come true this is the logo of gas projects so our lithuanian dreams. you know in this country i remember free four years ago it was a very popular one what pragmatism and we are bring my to can this case well you are prevented i'm sorry for interrupting this over there where you are pretty mad 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 prosperous i mean and bundling which would be give more competition nobody's talking about.

you know what does mean for. and here we were simple. up to you to very very very i would say clear we want to market the don't want a monopolies 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. selections upping yes and they stay with it 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 devout a monopoly it's not so well is the one hundred did you know what we did we create a 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 though well because you just called a drop. but if your gas dream comes true what will happen it was called was president putin calls it a robbery what do you want to do so if robbery here or robbery then is it a no win situation i would say if you find a compromise do you think you can find a compromise absolutely if. you 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 broyles of mr van rompuy mr what things are. 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 beary 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. a you do that with facility yes that's what i did to join the disability project to dive started there

first 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 knows how much. could cost but we have a strong political will. i would see on becoming one i would say sole or. on leaving. all manage supply thank you very much for being with us and just to remind that why a guest on the show today was foreign minister of the three india pondering. this if enough of all of us here if you want to have your sales spotlight to have someone in mind to you think i should take the next time just drop your life. are you and let's keep the show interactive.

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the world that showed russia's far east in exchange for assets of asia will have more on that and other business stories it will be going to stomach business. that six pm in moscow this is are coming to you live first this hour al qaeda linked chechen terrorists doku umarov has claimed responsibility for the bombing of last moment out of the airport officials have responded cautiously saying last month's attack was orchestrated by a group who may have been taking orders from more of we can now cross live to our g.'s you can see the groucho but she has the latest for us so tell us more about why does he claimed responsibility for the attack now over two weeks after it took place. oh doku umarov.