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LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SUMMONED UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR OVER SITUATION IN KYIV

On 2 December, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned the Ambassador of Ukraine to Lithuania Valery Zhovtenko. The Foreign Ministry expressed its concerns about the violent dispersal of peaceful demonstrators on Independence Square in Kyiv on Friday night and stressed the need to investigate and duly punish the culprits.

The Ambassador informed the Foreign Ministry that the Ukrainian leadership had condemned the brutal militia violence against peaceful demonstrators and stressed that Ukraine’s choice – the European integration – remained a strategic goal of the country’s foreign policy. V.Zhovtenko assured that the Ukrainian Government would take all reasonable steps to avoid civil conflicts.