Good idea: The researcher suggests conducting an audit of Lithuania's foreign policy, because the problems are accumulating

"The researcher spoke about this in a discussion organized by the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) on Friday entitled" Amateurs? Why is "value foreign policy" reminiscent of chaos?".

 

"It seems to me that the problems of Lithuania's foreign policy did not start today, not yesterday and not a year ago. It seems to me that this is a ball that has been accumulating for many years, decades of weight, gaining critical mass only in recent years, when virtually any real foreign policy and diplomacy has been replaced by some rhetoric, political postures and, I would say, even anger."  - said A. Kasparavičius.

 

According to him, some of the former goals, such as stopping the construction of the Astravo nuclear power plant, have had the opposite effect.

 

"Perhaps it is not a good thing, because if we recognize that Lithuania's foreign policy is moral, then we should also acknowledge another very obvious and even more sad fact - that Lithuania's allegedly moral foreign policy in the last 15 years has yielded practically only negative results", -  commented A. Kasparavičius.

 

He also identified dual government as a negative aspect of foreign policy - disagreements between the government and the president.

 

"I had to talk to our foreign colleagues, that's what everyone sees. He sees that stretch left and right. The result seems to me to be very sad - the "Balkanization" of Lithuanian foreign policy, said A. Kasparavičius, the head of the Lithuanian Institute of History.

 

A. Kasparavičius also offered an idea.

 

"It seems to me that today it would be worthwhile for the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Seimas and the President to start a certain audit of Lithuania's foreign policy. Perhaps I would recommend hiring experts from Switzerland or other non-interested countries to simply try to calculate the costs and results of Lithuania's foreign policy since 2004, "said the researcher.

 

To his knowledge, such audits were carried out several times between the wars.

 

"It seems to me that this is a certain problem. Problems are accumulating, they are not solved and we have a snowball effect," - said A. Kasparavičius."