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Mindaugas Sinkevičius, President of the Association of Lithuanian Municipalities, Mayor of Jonava District, says that coordinated action is needed to review relations with partner municipalities in Belarus.
“We really cannot keep in touch with the state institutions of such a state,” Vitalijus Mitrofanovas, mayor of Akmenė district, told BNS.
The Akmenė District Municipal Council’s draft resolution states that the agreement will be suspended in response to the forced landing of the Athens-Vilnius passenger plane at Minsk airport on May 23 and the illegal detention of the Belarusian opposition activist journalist. Ramanas Pratasevičius and others.
According to the bill, this endangered the safety and lives of citizens of Lithuania and other European Union countries, as well as civil aviation, and violated the fundamental rights of travelers to freedom.
“The last event that occurred with a plane that touched Lithuanian citizens, which could be entered by anyone in the Akmenė district, is a total indifference, non-observance of elementary decency, not to mention international law,” said the Mayor.
Furthermore, according to him, there has been little communication with the city of Recica in recent times.
“We recently had a cold from our partners. Their children and groups were invited to come, but we received no response. They wanted to show how we are doing, because their propaganda is trying to paint that we are disappearing and dying here, and how well that we are with them, but we feel that there is no desire to show the youth or the groups “, Mitrofanov. he told BNS.
The Akmenė district municipality plans to consider the issue of contract suspension on Monday.
The mayor of Jonava, M. Sinkevičius, told BNS this week the same problem as in Akmenė, raising his municipal politicians, because Jonava has a cooperation agreement with the Belarusian city of Polotsk.
According to him, it was decided to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its recommendation on how to better deal with this situation.
According to M. Sinkevičius, this topic is relevant not only for municipalities, but also for others, when it is necessary to decide on participation in sporting and cultural events.
Mindaugas Sinkevičius
“We believe that it would be better to take coordinated action on this issue. After all, the suspension or termination of a municipal contract for Belarusian propaganda may even seem ridiculous: some terminate the contract and several more municipalities have them,” said the mayor.
According to him, the issue of cooperation with Belarusian municipalities has not yet been discussed in the Association of Municipalities, as no one has raised it.
On the orders of Alexander Lukashenko, a Ryanair passenger plane with more than 100 passengers was forcibly landed in Minsk on Sunday. Belarusian opposition journalist Raman Pratasevic and his friend Sofia Sapega, who was flying it, were arrested and detained.
Last year, the founders of Nexta, Sciapan Pucil, 22, and Pratasevich, 26, were included by Belarus in the list of “persons involved in terrorist activities”, and the channel itself was declared “extremist” and ordered to be blocked.
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