Lithuania respects and supports Spain's territorial integrity and sovereignty, the country's Foreign Ministry said in response to independence declaration by Spain's autonomous region Catalonia.
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Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania supports the territorial integrity of Spain and calls for dialog in solving the crisis over the Catalan independence declaration as a confrontational path will mean riots and victims.
Catalonia cannot be compared with challenged and occupied areas in the Baltic states and Ukraine.
The Lithuanian parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday described as unjustifiable the use of force in Spain against participants of last Sunday's referendum on Catalonia's independence.
Sunday's violence in Spain will burden the dialogue between Madrid and supporters of Catalonia's independence, says Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė.
Spain is in crucial need of a dialogue with its citizens, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said following clashes between police and protesters in Catalonia, Spain, over the region's independence referendum.
Comparing the Catalonian aspirations to break free from Spain with the Baltic states' movement to gain independence from the Soviet Union would be incorrect, says Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius.
“Europe hasn't failed, states have – as administrative subjects”, Raul Romeva, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Institutional Relations and Transparency in the Catalan Government, said as he closed an international forum on refugee integration earlier in May.
The tide of plebiscites for independence is rolling across Europe. You name it: Scotland, Crimea, Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk and then Spain’s Catalonia.
In thinking about European values and ideals, I wish to address all Europeans and particularly their political leaders. I particularly am addressing high-ranking politicians in Norway, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. I hope to touch their conscience and their courage.
Once again there is an air of crisis across Europe.
