Linas Balsis: Lithuania does not block sanctions against Belarus

"Lithuania does not block sanctions against Belarus. Lithuania thinks that visa limitations should be used against a certain category of the representatives of Belarus, not against all the inhabitants of this country", — stated the Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė's spokesperson Linas Balsis. 

According to him, sanctions should not concern all the citizens of Belarus. "The President considers that Lithuania should not isolate Belarus, thus she wrote a letter to the President of the European Union Herman Van Rompay and the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso asking to simplify the visa regime for the Belarusian citizens so they would be able to get visas cheaper and easier, and get to the Shengen area upon better terms", — said the President's representative.