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"Mr President, the first former Soviet Republic to preside over our Union has done so well. Congratulations are due on a landmark agreement on the EU budget and on agreements with Georgia and Moldova at the Eastern Neighbourhood Summit. The absence of Ukraine can hardly be blamed on Lithuania.
Among the lesser achievements, the progress on the status of European political parties is especially welcome to me and to other Members of this House. Yet there remains one area of deep concern. During our debate at the start of the Presidency, I questioned official attitudes in Lithuania to ethnic Russians. I cited the case of Viktor Uspaskich, an ethnic Russian who is persecuted for the success of a Party he founded and the threat it poses to longer-established parties. We hoped that Lithuania would satisfy us that due process in this case is paramount and that Lithuania has not only a free economy but also a just society, in which the separation of powers is respected – that Lithuania has become, as President Grybauskaitė said of the European Union, ‘a lighthouse of hope for freedom, democracy and human rights’.
We have been disappointed. The irregularities in the judicial process against Mr Uspaskich are striking. Evidence of meddling in the judicial and political processes by the State Security Department and the Office of the President are worrying. Here, as in the case of Malik Gatayev, we need assurance that justice and the rule of law prevail in Lithuania."@en1
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