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  • Individual initiatives on NK are not Lithuania's official position

    Baltic News Service / - BNS
    March 1, 2013 Friday 2:28 PM EET


    Individual initiatives on Nagorno-Karabakh are not Lithuania's
    official position - chair



    VILNIUS, Mar 01, BNS - Initiatives of individual members of the Seimas
    to establish a group of friendship with the world's unrecognized
    Nagorno-Karabakh Republic do not reflect Lithuania's official
    position, Chairman of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affaiirs,
    Benediktas Juodka, said after a Friday meeting with Azerbaijani
    Ambassador to Lithuania Hasan Mammadzada in Vilnius.

    "It was confirmed at the meeting that Lithuania's official position on
    the issues of relations with foreign countries are reflected by
    existing international treaties and remain unchanged. The chairman of
    the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs underlined that statements and
    initiatives of individual members of the Seimas or their groups do not
    reflect the Seimas' official position," the statement issued after the
    meeting reads.

    It also states that "the establishment and activity of
    inter-parliamentary, parliamentary and friendship groups have to match
    the goals and principles of Lithuania's foreign policy."

    "Juodka assured the ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan that the
    Committee had asked the Seimas management for the establishment of a
    clearer procedure of the establishment of inter-parliamentary groups
    and their activities," the Seimas Public Relations Unit said in the
    statement.

    An event was held at the Seimas earlier this week and the
    Nagorno-Karabakh's foreign minister attended it. It was decided at the
    event to establish a friendship group with Nagorno-Karabakh.

    The Azerbaijani ambassador later handed in a diplomatic note to the
    Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which he said that "it can
    have a negative impact on our bilateral relations."

    With support from Armenia's capital Yerevan, ethnic Armenian
    separatists took control over Nagorno-Karabakh during the war in the
    last decade of the 20 th century, which killed about 30,000 people. No
    countries have recognized Nagorno Karabakh's independence, the
    international community deems the region part of Azerbaijan.

    Azerbaijan has repeatedly threatened to get back control over
    Nagorno-Karabakh by force.

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