The Lithuanian National Defense Council, chaired by the President, has discussed Russia’s leadership’s plans to rehabilitate the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed on the eve of World War II.
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“Members of the National Defense Council agreed that the planned amendments to the Russian constitution and plans to formally rehabilitate the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols raise serious concerns,” the president’s office said in a statement.
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“Russia’s efforts to systematically rewrite history in an attempt to justify its policy towards its neighbors, to challenge its statehood and to divide the European Union and NATO must be brought to the attention of the Allies and the international community. (..). July, “it states.
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The Baltic states strongly oppose the bill under discussion in the Russian State Duma, which intends to revoke the decision taken by the Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR in 1989 to declare the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact legally unfounded and invalid.
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Russian voters are also called to vote in a referendum on constitutional amendments that would ensure “the defense of historical truth” and prevent “contempt for the people’s heroic work in defending the Fatherland.”
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As Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimund Karoblis told reporters, the attempt to defend the pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany is part of Russia’s propaganda campaign.
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The Russian authorities have recently been trying to claim that the annexation and occupation of the Baltic states during World War II was legal.
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The Lithuanian National Defense Council, which reviews and coordinates the most important Lithuanian national defense issues, consists of the President, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Parliament, the Minister of Defense and the Commander of the Armed Forces.
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