seven more suspects identified in connection with the moscow airport bombing in january this comes after russia's most wanted terrorist claims he ordered the attack. weiqi leaks founder julian assange engine court in the u.k. for the second day battling extradition to sweden with the hearing set to resume friday saw his lawyers say political pressure from washington could see him handed over to u.s. authorities. egypt's president hosni mubarak offers to reform the constitution in an attempt to use public anger but thousands of protesters poured back into tahrir square in cairo in an apparent rejection of the proposals and continued to demand his resignation. as lithuania takes its turn ahead of the organization for security and cooperation in europe algor enough talks to the country's foreign minister about the challenges ahead spotlight coming up after

a short break. culture is that so much different and there's a huge musician apparently minute mark with a dilemma democracy versus stability can egypt powerful are the us and it's ours. hello again welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. . my guest on the show is on the jubilee this. year 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 bella ruse

the situation in the transnistria in the garden and selwyn and so forth what's their fresh look at those problems let's ask the lithuanian foreign minister. it's . always see the office from deloris accused the country's leader alexander lukashenko fall play during recent presidential elections that cost the office its license and the always see chairman says little hope mr lucas shango can be talked into changing his mind by the lithuanian foreign minister drawing a sociable as optimistic about the fact economic sanctions can have an immense and his also optimistic about the frozen conflict in the trans. hoping something and finally change for the better. tony minister welcome to the show thank you very much beyond the 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 course it's our intentions to pursue you before it is. to reopen but we would like to. in this case the office would keep the same meaning for us but it will be this some content not just decoration but to be very frank i do not have very much hope despite what that all countries including russia united states. minsk do not close because office what next step i think the next step is just to him 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 first and to stand the e.u. introduce a 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 i do know they have very much i would say you're economical consequences but 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 face is

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 that country and quote well looking for vilnius do you believe that look. really faces in uprising do you believe that his regime is doomed. you know i'm not fictionists. not going to make such conclusions but i just would like to look a little bit back remember two files and six. immediately after the elections what we saw in billers at the time five four 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 bodies n.g.o.s it means that receive it success it 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 grove 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 to humanities university where the two files and your russian students . learning. you have come to was this time to discuss a number of pretty important issues such as the situation in the trans 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 is. brussels is very divided you know. moscow has very own interests. as well but i think some interests regarding the stability regarding. not inflaming the 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 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 i mean goal but. resume talks five plus two and here i. understood that we could expect some support from the russian side how we discuss 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. i present our view and i said what it will be fruitful to i would say to extend the mission in the whole territory. 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 engine. 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 shall they have well absolutely because i see this mission as a tool for implementing confidence building measures starting from simple thing not to block what 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 still 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 you 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 would remain the same remain the same for years and years of course and 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 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 here so let's take a positive this is a let's take a cut above we both know but the situation is becoming dangerous the 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 talked very sincerely want to be could do and of course to be very much

value vexed t.v. over 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 a minute. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm. chemicals that whether it's a sonic boom six tractor marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields or rock or

destroyed reefs in the pacific for planning purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that they are shall be taken in war to protect them involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. hungary for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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. uses of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two. nineteen forty five don't comb. welcome back to spotlight and i'll bring love in just a reminder that my guest on the show today is all that and yes it's the foreign minister minister you. 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 went went a little in us 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 were some prospects. very i would say. very encouraging coverage to the duma recent decision on stalin is by your president medvedev statements few statements on that that's 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 ourself and to find common the

relation on other hand if you will look to the legal documents. the first three to about two established states of 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 is another question and that's what now we are in currently i'm talking about compensation we are talking now how to encourage work of our unique i would say common. historian group how to encourage faster 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 a fine a 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 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 teacher of the bolton country then he condemned this attack and he even called upon gorbachev to resign absolute power 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 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 better about figures like the theme in parliament passed a law on compensations wish to live twenty a 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 law after that yes of course the law which. every goal meant. to try to result was questions about

a compensation of. 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 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 will say about all these gulags and so on that's what we're understanding but we would like literature 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

a different historians and politicians recently we discussed it with the 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 crews who should lead first of the 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 a first of all in which was published two years ago was written by historians by historians. no no politicians but what even now we have 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 are 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 correct 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. let's 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 mighty 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 give more competition nobody's talking about. you know what does mean for me. and here we were simple. up as a youth very very very i would say clear if you want to market the don't want a monopoly so we don't like vertically integrated monopole is which robbing our people day by day you know that the one hundred dollars more than

germans per one thousand cubic meters of it only for fifty dollars more than let it selections that are paying more to 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 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 have been no we haven't auctions on electricity and via. buying from different russian companies fish companies with electricity and it's almost much model well if you just call the dr berry 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 this is it a no win situation i will tell you find a compromise do you think you can find a compromise absolutely if. you will play according to market rules but 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 are they all free expressed strong support for the fenian actions but they never find gas 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 about didn't already know 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. we always had yes because we had that yeah yeah you do that with facility yes that's what i did to join the disability project to dive diverse annoyed i am not going to discuss no on one on a particular project because i am not so competent. on that and just leave it to i would say to especially who knows how much reform think could cause but we have a strong political will on i would say on becoming one i would say sol or. on leaving.

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