{"id":99583,"date":"2005-12-09T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2005\/12\/09\/the-black-sea-a-romanian-lithuanian-objective-7221-eng\/"},"modified":"2005-12-09T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T08:59:00","slug":"the-black-sea-a-romanian-lithuanian-objective-7221-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-black-sea-a-romanian-lithuanian-objective-7221-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Sea, a Romanian-Lithuanian objective"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

"Romania is interested in consolidating democracy in the space bordered by the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea", in the context of a possible collaboration with the Russian Federation, President Traian Basescu said yesterday, at the meeting with his Lithuanian counterpart, Valdas Adamkus, who is in Bucharest, in a two-day official visit. "Together with other NATO or EU member states, Romania has responsibilities relating to securing its eastern border. There is no safer solution than the democratization of the region at our borders", the Head of the Lithuanina State said, quoted by Mediafax News Agency. He also added the approach could not be developed without the participation of the Russian Federation, "as an extremely powerful state in the region and with a very strong influence". "We support the idea of involving the Russian Federation in the debate over the region", Basescu added, in this respect. In turn, the Lithuanian President appreciated the approaches for the democratization of the region between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea as an important stage in Europe’s unification. (A.M.L.) <\/p>\n

Lithuanian President, Valdas Adamkus: "Let’s go over the Soviet period" <\/p>\n

The President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, arrived yesterday at Bucharest, in a two-day official visit, at the invitation of his Romanian counterpart, Traian Basescu. 15 years after the declaration of independence towards the ex-USSR and approximately a year and a half after the Lithuanian accession to the European Union, the strategy of the authorities in Vilnius stands as a very bold one, trying a equilibrium between the Russian Federation and its European partners. The horizon of the Russian-Lithuanian Relationships, which the head of state, Valdas Adamkus, qualified as "normal", and which nothing seems to shadow. Not even the mid-September "extremely unfortunate event" – as the officials of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense put it –, when a Russian plane, "got lost" in the Lithuanian airspace, under NATO protection, crashed near Kaunas. The plane was armed to the teeth, being endowed with 4 air-air missiles. The event tensioned, at least for a few weeks, the relationships with the Russian Federation so that, eventually Moscow eased the situation by offering Vilnius damages for the incident. More sensitive to the Russian-German initiative of building an underwater gas pipe in the Baltic Sea, depriving, by this, the countries in the region from possible benefits of the project, Lithuanian officials suddenly became serious and denounced the approach as "lacking responsibility". Being determined to "go over" the Soviet past and cautious in their current relationships with the Russian Federation, the authorities in Vilnius like better the European perspective to the Eastern alternative. We summarize below fragments of the exclusive interview the Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus vouchsafed to ZIUA daily. <\/p>\n

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Russia’s excuses for the occupation, the "equivalent of moral compensations" <\/p>\n

Estonia has stated, recently, it was waiting for excuses from the Russian Federation for the Soviet occupation. Has Lithuania in view such a request? <\/p>\n

Of course, we all know the country was occupied by force and that the Ribbentrop Pact existed. It was said, of course, the occupation was not an occupation, that Lithuania willingly accepted to join the Soviet Union and to give up its sovereignty, but we also know how things really were. Now it’s about the excuses, about the compensations. Hypothetically, a civilized society would probably expect such a gesture, especially from a government who has no direct responsibility for the dictatorship of the Soviet period, nut I so not expect such a thing. We need one more generation to pass for the new Russia to accept such a gesture as a normal one in developing relationships with another state. I would be extremely pleased – and I believe I am speaking on behalf of all the Lithuanians – of the current Russian Government simply admits that the unfortunate events of the Soviet period really took place, that the imposing of the Soviet regime was illegal, against all moral rights and against all democratic practices. I consider such a statement as an equivalent of some moral compensation. <\/p>\n

Do you consider that the European Union, in this new extended form, should officially condemn communism or to set up a museum for the commemoration of the crimes of this regime? <\/p>\n

I think I will surprise you in this respect. The set up of a new museum or the renewal of the condemnations will do absolutely nothing to change the good-will showed, the process of Europe’s unification, the finding of a common language with a view to a common future. A new condemnation will add nothing more to the facts already known by all of us. History is history, we all know that, let us go over. <\/p>\n

Interview taken by Anne-Marie LUPASCU \/\/ Ziua<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>“Romania is interested in consolidating democracy in the space bordered by the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea”, in the context of a possible collaboration with the Russian Federation, President Traian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

"Romania is interested in consolidating democracy in the space bordered by the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea", in the context of a possible collaboration with the Russian Federation, President Traian Basescu said yesterday, at the meeting with his Lithuanian counterpart, Valdas Adamkus, who is in Bucharest, in a two-day official visit. "Together with other NATO or EU member states, Romania has responsibilities relating to securing its eastern border. There is no safer solution than the democratization of the region at our borders", the Head of the Lithuanina State said, quoted by Mediafax News Agency. He also added the approach could not be developed without the participation of the Russian Federation, "as an extremely powerful state in the region and with a very strong influence". "We support the idea of involving the Russian Federation in the debate over the region", Basescu added, in this respect. In turn, the Lithuanian President appreciated the approaches for the democratization of the region between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea as an important stage in Europe’s unification. (A.M.L.) <\/p>\n

Lithuanian President, Valdas Adamkus: "Let’s go over the Soviet period" <\/p>\n

The President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, arrived yesterday at Bucharest, in a two-day official visit, at the invitation of his Romanian counterpart, Traian Basescu. 15 years after the declaration of independence towards the ex-USSR and approximately a year and a half after the Lithuanian accession to the European Union, the strategy of the authorities in Vilnius stands as a very bold one, trying a equilibrium between the Russian Federation and its European partners. The horizon of the Russian-Lithuanian Relationships, which the head of state, Valdas Adamkus, qualified as "normal", and which nothing seems to shadow. Not even the mid-September "extremely unfortunate event" – as the officials of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense put it –, when a Russian plane, "got lost" in the Lithuanian airspace, under NATO protection, crashed near Kaunas. The plane was armed to the teeth, being endowed with 4 air-air missiles. The event tensioned, at least for a few weeks, the relationships with the Russian Federation so that, eventually Moscow eased the situation by offering Vilnius damages for the incident. More sensitive to the Russian-German initiative of building an underwater gas pipe in the Baltic Sea, depriving, by this, the countries in the region from possible benefits of the project, Lithuanian officials suddenly became serious and denounced the approach as "lacking responsibility". Being determined to "go over" the Soviet past and cautious in their current relationships with the Russian Federation, the authorities in Vilnius like better the European perspective to the Eastern alternative. We summarize below fragments of the exclusive interview the Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus vouchsafed to ZIUA daily. <\/p>\n

(…) <\/p>\n

Russia’s excuses for the occupation, the "equivalent of moral compensations" <\/p>\n

Estonia has stated, recently, it was waiting for excuses from the Russian Federation for the Soviet occupation. Has Lithuania in view such a request? <\/p>\n

Of course, we all know the country was occupied by force and that the Ribbentrop Pact existed. It was said, of course, the occupation was not an occupation, that Lithuania willingly accepted to join the Soviet Union and to give up its sovereignty, but we also know how things really were. Now it’s about the excuses, about the compensations. Hypothetically, a civilized society would probably expect such a gesture, especially from a government who has no direct responsibility for the dictatorship of the Soviet period, nut I so not expect such a thing. We need one more generation to pass for the new Russia to accept such a gesture as a normal one in developing relationships with another state. I would be extremely pleased – and I believe I am speaking on behalf of all the Lithuanians – of the current Russian Government simply admits that the unfortunate events of the Soviet period really took place, that the imposing of the Soviet regime was illegal, against all moral rights and against all democratic practices. I consider such a statement as an equivalent of some moral compensation. <\/p>\n

Do you consider that the European Union, in this new extended form, should officially condemn communism or to set up a museum for the commemoration of the crimes of this regime? <\/p>\n

I think I will surprise you in this respect. The set up of a new museum or the renewal of the condemnations will do absolutely nothing to change the good-will showed, the process of Europe’s unification, the finding of a common language with a view to a common future. A new condemnation will add nothing more to the facts already known by all of us. History is history, we all know that, let us go over. <\/p>\n

Interview taken by Anne-Marie LUPASCU \/\/ Ziua<\/a> <\/p>\n

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