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“It was discussed during the conversation that this unprecedented event should receive a strong transatlantic response,” the foreign minister said.
Earlier, the Lithuanian head of diplomacy reported that due to Belarus’ actions when landing a Ryanair plane flying from Athens to Vilnius, he requested the Prosecutor General’s Office to arrest a Belarusian opposition activist.
According to the Minister, this unprecedented step by the Belarusian regime is nothing more than an act of terrorism.
“We have already seen that the Belarusian regime has repeatedly undertaken terrorist actions against its community, against the opposition. We have repeatedly condemned it by imposing sanctions. However, this time the terrorist act was applied not only to the Belarusian opposition, but also to the citizens of twelve EU member states, “said G. Landsbergis after meeting with the president on Sunday.
A Ryanair liner flew from Athens to Vilnius on Sunday but forcibly landed in Minsk after a false bomb report. He was accompanied in Belarusian airspace by the Mig-29 fighter jet of the country’s air force.
The plane was piloted by a critic of the Belarusian regime, Roman Protasevich, detained in Minsk.
