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Minister Jacek Czaputowicz visits Lithuania

17.01.2020

“Poland and Lithuania actively participate in the process of reforming and strengthening NATO. We perceive the North Atlantic Alliance as a foundation for security in our part of Europe and as a platform to foster transatlantic bonds. We share views on threats that we face in contemporary international relations,” said Minister Jacek Czaputowicz during his visit to Vilnius.

Minister Jacek Czaputowicz visits Lithuania

Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz met with Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis and Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius to discuss bilateral relations, economic, regional and infrastructural cooperation, security and the state of implementation of Polish minority rights in Lithuania.

“Our objective is to preserve and continue the traditional cohesion and common agricultural policies which allow our countries to catch up with the EU average growth rate,” said the chief of Polish diplomacy during a joint conference with his Lithuanian counterpart. The two ministers praised close cooperation between Poland and Lithuania in security-related matters as well as a similar approach to the situation on the two countries’ eastern borders. They also discussed the ever closer regional cooperation as well as transport projects currently underway (Rail Baltica, Via Baltica) and energy projects that are being implemented (synchronization of power grids, construction of Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania – GIPL) which help strengthen the position of the region and its security. On the agenda of Polish-Lithuanian high-level talks was also a thriving cultural cooperation which is reflected in the launch of the TVP Wilno channel in September 2019.

“Our discussion was largely devoted to the situation of the Polish minority in Lithuania and of the Lithuanian minority in Poland. It is a very important topic for Poland, and we want Lithuania to respect the rights of the local Polish minority. We welcome the agreement that both ministries of education have signed, and we will do our best to implement it,” said the Polish foreign policy chief.

When in Lithuania, Minister Jacek Czaputowicz also visited the Vilnius John Paul II Gymnasium with Polish as a teaching language, where he met with representatives of the local Polish minority. The minister also laid a wreath at the cemetery section for Soldiers who died in the 1920 Polish-Soviet War, at the Memorial to the Victims of Struggle for Lithuanian Independence and in Rasos cemetery: at The mother and the heart of son Mausoleum and at the Chapel of the January Uprising Heroes.

The Polish top diplomat also participated in the Snow Meeting whose leading theme is security-related issues and challenges faced by the international community.

 

MFA Press Office

Photo: Tymon Markowski / MFA

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