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“It just came to our notice then. Yesterday at the ministry we brought together a group of people to assess these opportunities from a legal point of view. We will see what the conclusions will be,” Landsbergis said on Friday after the Coordination Council meeting. of Foreign Policy.
According to him, a legal basis is needed for such a decision.
“Although the tastes of music can vary greatly, we still need to see a clear legal basis that recommends that people be blacklisted, so that they are not allowed to enter one country or another,” said the foreign minister.
He also noted that the lists of people who are not allowed to enter Lithuania due to the ongoing crackdown in Belarus must be constantly updated.
“People directly involved in the suppression of Belarusian protests in Belarus should also be blacklisted.” … That process must not stop, “Landsbergis said.
In turn, the president of the Foreign Affairs Commission of Seimas Ž. Pavilionis argued that performers who use soft propaganda in their work should be barred from entering the country.
Sigismund Pavilionis
“It just came to our notice then. Hopefully, we won’t accept the tough threats, but it is the mild threats that are the most dangerous. We have to react,” Ž said. Pavilion.
He recalled that during the previous mandate of the Seimas, together with his colleague Laurynas Kasčiūnas, he proposed to the Government to complement the criteria established according to which the list of people who are prohibited from entering the country could be expanded.
“It just came to our attention then. As far as I know, we have negotiated with Lauryn in such a way that in the near future a meeting of the Committee on National Security and Defense will begin, together with the Committee on Culture, in which I will participate personally. “We will talk very seriously with all institutions about how to create a system so that we do not have to constantly react to these deplorable cases, but to create a system and help institutions that do not face those geopolitical threats to avoid such mistakes in the future,” said.
Speaking about the lists of sanctioned people, Asta Skaigirytė, head of the Presidential Foreign Policy Group, noted that Lithuania is one of the most persistent advocates of sanctions against people who carry out repressions in Belarus.
“Lithuania is one of the most active countries fighting disinformation and very clearly identifies the actors of disinformation and retaliatory actions. (…) Under certain parameters, sanctions cannot be in vain, they must have a specific basis. Recently, sanctions at the EU level have been linked to the Belarusian regime and companies. Lithuania’s national sanctions list also includes more than 100 representatives of the Belarusian regime, ”said A. Skaisgirytė.
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