09 June 2004 19:04
Lithuanian presidential candidates stress importance of good ties with Russia
Vilnius, 6 June: Lithuania's entry to the EU and NATO "will not impede the further development of its
good-neighbourly relations with Moscow". Russia "has been and will remain our closest neighbour",
Ceslovas Jursenas, acting Seimas [parliament] speaker, told our correspondent today. Ceslovas Jursenas is also standing
in the early presidential election which will take place on 13 June.
The four other candidates to the post of head of state - former President Valdas Adamkus, former chief EU negotiator
Petras Austrevicius, Social Security and Labour Minister Vilija Blinkeviciute and former Prime Minister Kazimiera
Prunskiene - also told our correspondent that the development of good-neighbourly relations with Russia was among the
priority tasks of Lithuanian foreign policy.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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