Lithuanian FM: Vilnius doesn’t recognise Belarusian opposition’s ‘passport’
Vilnius doesn’t recognise a homemade ‘passport’ promoted in Lithuania by representatives of the Belarusian opposition as a legal document – as noted by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys, BelTA reports with reference to TASS
“From the legal point of view, Lithuania has nothing to do with this document and cannot recognise it,” the Foreign Minister said.
In turn, Chair of the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs Remigijus Motuzas called the ‘passport’, invented by the Belarusian opposition, a ‘symbolic document’.
“It will not be recognised as valid on the territory of the Republic of Lithuania,” the diplomat believes.
Earlier, a number of politicians in Lithuania expressed indignation at the plans of the fugitive Belarusian opposition to create their own alternative ‘passports’ with the image of a mounted knight, similar to the Lithuanian Vytis. In their opinion, the Belarusian opposition appropriates the Lithuanian symbol.