Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that the North Atlantic Alliance should not “sabre-rattling” as collective security must first of all be ensured through diplomacy.
“NATO as an organization must first of all take care of collective and regional security. And it doesn’t have to be done with saber rattling. Today, I believe, diplomats should speak, speak very clearly, coherently, understandably, because the other side listens to this rhetoric and builds its plans depending on this rhetoric”, the head of Lithuania said on LRT, RIA Novosti reports.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, also spoke in support of dialogue with Russia both at the level of bilateral relations and within the framework of international organizations.
“We are waiting for the ruling conservatives to initiate an impeachment procedure for this word. It will be an interesting spectacle: the ruling party and the government with a 10% approval rating will initiate the impeachment of a president with a 73% approval rating […] in Lithuania and this is possible. They don’t have democracy there, but the dictatorship of the democrats,” political scientist Alexander Nosovich noted in his Telegram.
Earlier it became known that the North Atlantic Alliance refused to comply with Russia’s demand not to accept Ukraine into NATO. Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg even called on Moscow to “withdraw troops from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova.” Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov recommended that the Secretary General first of all pay attention to NATO’s actions in Syria.