On Monday, the President of Lithuania strongly opposed Russia’s annexation of Crimea by Ukraine in 2014 and the Kremlin’s recent military actions against its Eastern European neighbors.
Gitana Nauseda was in Warsaw, addressing a remote session of Polish and Lithuanian parliamentarians, marking the 230th anniversary of their common constitution, the first democratic document written in Europe. News agency mentioned.
Nused said: “Lithuania will never recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea and will take steps to end the actual occupation of eastern Ukraine.” “Whatever happens, we cannot allow Ukraine to go back in time.”
He also said that Lithuania supports the freedom campaign in Belarus and will never allow it to be influenced by Moscow.
“In the twenty-first century, there is no room in Europe for new spheres of influence that deny the sovereignty of independent states,” said Noceda.
Among the guests at the ceremonies in Warsaw were the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the Presidents of Latvia and Estonia.
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In a subsequent televised debate among the presidents, Polish leader Andrzej Duda Zelensky confirmed that Warsaw believed that Russia’s actions in Ukraine “should not be allowed”.
Zelensky, who will meet with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blink In Kiev this week, she said that the war against Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine meant “there is a war in Europe”.
“Today, no one will relinquish our sovereignty. We fight… because we want to be free, ”said Zeļenskis.
After individual talks with Duda, Zelensky thanked Poland for its strong support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and its condemnation of the annexation of Crimea.
Zelensky said he invited Doda to a celebration in August to mark the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence and to a meeting of accompanying heads of state to discuss “ending the occupation of Crimea.”
Monday ‘s presidential debate on The European Union And in a pandemic, Zelensky said that Ukraine, which one day wants to join the club, has announced that it has not yet received the promised COVID-19 vaccines from It is.
He said only one million people had been immunized in his country, which has more than 44 million people.
The five presidents signed a declaration reaffirming that national solidarity is the foundation of peace, stability and development in today’s world.
The purpose of the Polish Constitution of 1791 was to strengthen its political system and the rule of law and to protect it from aggression by neighboring countries, including Russia.
Historians say that the efforts were too late and failed to prevent the annexation of the Russian, Prussian and Austrian empires, which in 1795 destroyed Poland from the maps for more than a century.
Neighboring Poland and Lithuania were one country during the 18th century constitution.
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