Lithuanian president on BBC: ‘We feel the pain’ of Belarusians

On Thursday, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda spoke on BBC HARDtalk where he said Lithuania „feels the pain of those people in the streets” of Belarus.

“We are very close to the Belarusian nation, not only in geographic [terms], but also in the emotional sense,” he said. “We see how they are suffering. We hear the stories about violations, about tortures.”

When Lithuania declared independence 30 years ago, “a small country far away, Iceland, stepped in and recognised our independence”, said Nausėda. “We didn’t forget it. We think now we must do the same [for Belarus] what Iceland did [for us] 30 years ago.”

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