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Opposition bloc in your parliament says normalisation of relations with china must begin and it must begin with the removal of landsbergis from the post of foreign minister. the pressure on you is growing. well, that s. .. well, this is what opposition does in any democratic country, and i m glad that we are a democracy. let s finish with that idea of you being a democracy. throughout this conversation, you ve stressed lithuania s commitment to defending freedom and democracy in your own country, across europe. if you are to be credible and serious with that position, is it not time for lithuania to look within, to look at the way it, over decades and decades, has refused to tell the truth about the story of what lithuanians did to collaborate with the nazis in the killing ofjews in the second world war? well, i think that lithuania really is taking the right steps in that regard, and, as history is extremely difficult for any country, we ve learned our lessons ....
There doesn t appear to be a willingness to be truthful about how some of even your national heroes collaborated with the nazis. is it time to change? well, i think that it s a healing process, and it s.the country has to heal from many wounds that. ..that occurred to the people of our country. and it takes time, and i would love to see that going faster. but unfortunately, if we want that to be sustainable, we need to allow the country to heal. and i m quite convinced that we will have some good news in that regard when we are talking about the museums. we have to end there. foreign minister landsbergis, thank you very much forjoining me on hardtalk. thank you. thank you for the questions. ....
So you can tell me on hardtalk are you prepared to say, i got it wrong, this is too much pressure on lithuania, we re going to change the name to taipei ? well, i m glad to correct you there, that we have an agreement with the president that we are not taking the name back and it stays, because we are convinced that we did nothing illegal and everything else will be sorted in the manners that are usually used for that, for these cases. so, right, the biggest opposition bloc in your parliament says normalisation of relations with china must begin and it must begin with the removal of landsbergis from the post of foreign minister. the pressure on you is growing. well, that s. .. well, this is what opposition does in any democratic country, and i m glad that we are a democracy. let s finish with that idea of you being a democracy. throughout this conversation, you ve stressed lithuania s commitment to defending freedom and democracy in your own country, across europe. ....
That you made a mistake with this name change and he wants you to take it back. so you can tell me on hardtalk are you prepared to say, i got it wrong, this is too much pressure on lithuania, we re going to change the name to taipei ? well, i m glad to correct you there, that we have an agreement with the president that we are not taking the name back and it stays, because we are convinced that we did nothing illegal and everything else will be sorted in the manners that are usually used for that, for these cases. so, right, the biggest opposition bloc in your parliament says normalisation of relations with china must begin and it must begin with the removal of landsbergis from the post of foreign minister. the pressure on you is growing. well, that s. .. well, this is what opposition does in any democratic country, and i m glad that we are a democracy. let s finish with that idea of you being a democracy. throughout this conversation, you ve stressed lithuania s commitment to def ....
Well, i think that it s a healing process, and it s.the country has to heal from many wounds that. ..that occurred to the people of our country. and it takes time, and i would love to see that going faster. but unfortunately, if we want that to be sustainable, we need we need to allow the country to heal. and i m quite convinced that we will have some good news in that regard when we are talking about the museums. we have to end there. foreign minister landsbergis, thank you very much forjoining me on hardtalk. thank you. thank you for the questions. ....