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Lithuaniaâ€™s Foreign Minister offers to recall ambassadors to Azerbaijan and Hungary

23 August 2013 12:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Shamil Alibeyli – APA. The proposals of Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas LinkeviÄius regarding the scandal over the uploading of phone conversations of Lithuanian ambassadors to Hungary and Azerbaijan to Renatas Juška and ArtÅ«ras Å½urauskas have today been heard at the Foreign Relations Committee of the Seimas.

Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Benediktas Juodka told APA that minister LinkeviÄius offered to officially recall the ambassadors: “But we have not discussed this issue yet, the results will be considered at the next meeting of the Committee. Following the Committee’s decision, the issue will be considered by the government. Later, the president must issue a relevant order. But the authorities doubt the activities of those ambassadors, we can not be indifferent to this issue. The Committee will solve the issue through voting, final decision will be passed by the government and president.”

Asked about the possibility of deprival of the diplomatic status, Juodka said that such a proposal was not put forward: “The minister only offered to recall them and it doesn’t mean that they will be excluded from the diplomatic service.”