„It is difficult to criticize the initiatives of the members of the Seimas, they have a free mandate to act. But I think we must always think about the prestige of the state, how we appear in the eyes of partners. I believe that the country’s foreign policy must have consistency, a clear vector. Both the president and the government are responsible for foreign policy,“ the head of the government said in an interview with LNK television on Friday.
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„Yes, there are formats in the Seimas, committees in the Seimas that operate, but those improvisations sometimes, perhaps driven by good intentions, do not necessarily always help,“ he emphasized.
The portal „Delfi“ reported this week that parliamentarians Ignas Vėgėlė, Vitalijus Šeršniovas, Tadas Barauskas, Algirdas Butkevičius, Rimas Jonas Jankūnas, Karolis Neimantas, and Artūras Zuokas have formed a temporary group „For the normalization of diplomatic relations with China to the level of European Union (EU) member states“ and intend to go to Brussels.
As BNS wrote, the ruling party has recently been more actively talking about normalizing diplomatic representation in relations with China, but so far this has not yielded practical results.
M. Sinkevičius’s government program promises to seek to normalize „diplomatic relations with China to such a level of diplomatic representation as it is in other EU member states“.
Just last week, after a meeting with Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys, the head of parliament Juozas Olekas said he saw progress in normalizing relations between Vilnius and Beijing.
Bilateral relations between the countries deteriorated in 2021 when Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a Taiwanese representative office in the country.
