- February 14, 2014
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Belligerent rhetoric disturbs in having partner relations with Poland
The rhetoric of ‘reseting” the relations is also common in Lithuania. “Veidas”, the opinion making weekly paper writes that before elections, the promise of beginning new relations between Lithuania and its least sympathetic neighbours is given.
When the previous government ruled, the relation between Poland and Lithuania was called “cold peace”. So Lithuanian head of diplomacy visited Poland firstly. During this visit, Linas Linkevičius apologized for rejecting the project of the act about the original spelling of surnames.
The polishing of relations ended at that point because no important issues for Polish minority was attended. Benediktas Judoka, the chairperson of the Parliament Committee of Foreign Affairs, the socio democrat, exhorts to keeping peace. “Let’s recall the situation before the visit of Linkevičius. Radosław Sikorski, the Secretary declared that he’s not going to visit Vilnius. Linkevičius went and met with Sikorski, and the relations between secretaries and prime ministers improved” – the politician said.
On the other hand, Raimondas Lopata, the political scientist, claims that only those people who created present relations between Lithuania and Poland may say that they are normal and positive: “It’s high time we realized that infrastructure projects with Poland are getting slowly and they are late now” – appealed, the political scientist.
Prof. Šarūnas Liekis thinks that Lithuanian politicians should make their statements carefully. “Belligerent ethnic-national rhetoric, which is stated by the most important Lithuanian officials disturbs in having partner relations. One will treat their partners friendly and with understanding instead of spreading paranoiac conspiratorial theories” – the political scientist is assured.
Algimantas Kasparavičius, the historian, does not see any willing to begin constructive dialogue: “Dalia Grybauskaite, the president of Lithuania, announced the break in the relations. However, I’ve difficulty in understanding what we should wait for when we have so many problems. Poland has given many signs to Lithuania, it’s changed the ambassador in Lithuania but in our country, nobody understands what strategic points are” – the historian emphasized.
The authors of the publication wrote that AWPL also affects political dissension directkly. In their opinion, the success of the political party is directly influenced by the escalation of the national minorities’ problems.
Tłumaczenie by Anna Kwiatkowska w ramach praktyk w Europejskiej Fundacji Praw Człowieka, www.efhr.eu. Translated by Anna Kwiatkowska within the framework of a traineeship programme of the European Foundation of Human Rights, www.efhr.eu.
