The Parliament’s Speaker compared Tibet’s fight with Lithuania’s fight for freedom

Posted by editor on 3/02/10 • Categorized as China, Foreign Policy, International • Print This Post •

Lithuania’s Parliament Speaker Irena Degutiene again commented on the sensitive Tibet issue. The Speaker compared the Tibetans fight for independence with the Lithuanian’s fight for independence against the Soviet Union twenty years ago.

Irena Degutiene said to the national radio on 2 March, “Tibet’s fight for freedom and independence from a powerful state is similar to Lithuania’s fight for independence from the Soviet Union and from Russia’s influence on Lithuania. These are probably the very simple and humane rather than political factors.”

The Speaker met with the Chinese ambassador last week status of the forthcoming Parliamentary resolution on the human rights in Tibet. The ambassador also inquired about the faith of a Tibet Square in Vilnius. At the meeting Degutiene asked the ambassador not to politicize the issue.