{"id":1590338,"date":"2025-01-09T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/?p=1590338"},"modified":"2025-01-09T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T17:54:33","slug":"lithuanian-foreign-minister-russia-will-escalate-subsea-cable-disruption-unless-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/en\/economia\/2025-01-09\/lithuanian-foreign-minister-russia-will-escalate-subsea-cable-disruption-unless-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Foreign Minister: Russia will escalate subsea cable disruption unless stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1590338\" class=\"elementor elementor-1590338\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bd81710 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bd81710\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3daa40e7\" data-id=\"3daa40e7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d11bc86 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4d11bc86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>By Juris Ka\u017ea<\/p>\n\n<p>Riga, Jan 9 (EFE).- Russian-sponsored disruption of underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea will continue and escalate unless such activities are met with a firm response from NATO countries, Lithuania&#8217;s new Foreign Affairs Minister K\u0119stutis Budrys told journalists in the Latvian capital Riga on Thursday, noting that the arrival of NATO naval vessels in the region was a step towards such a response.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWe have to see it in a broader process of escalating from Russia&#8217;s side, so that&#8217;s what it was, and this is related to our support to Ukraine, it&#8217;s related to overall Russia&#8217;s stance against the West, as they understand it, and our lack of response, and we have to have this clear link between lack of response to previous situations where we&#8217;re getting now, and lack of reaction to what was happening already in continental Europe and elsewhere with the kinetic sabotage operations from Russian institutions and their agents,\u201d Budrys, a former advisor to Lithuanian president Gitanas Naus\u0117da said.<\/p>\n\n<p>Commenting on remarks by United States president-elect Donald Trump urging all NATO countries to spend 5 % of gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, Budrys said: \u201cWhen we&#8217;re talking about the percentage of GDP, Lithuania this year will reach almost 4 percent. And we&#8217;re looking forward to what we can build, what capabilities we can build and become stronger in this sense and provide more security to our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb size-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/\/srv\/htdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/rss-efe7fa751391c5c5570b68f5de0be079ad22eada5d5w.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze attends a joint press conference with her Lithuanian counterpart Kestutis Budrys (not pictured) after their talks in Riga, Latvia, 09 January 2025. EFE\/EPA\/TOMS KALNINS\n\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" data-description=\"Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze attends a joint press conference with her Lithuanian counterpart Kestutis Budrys (not pictured) after their talks in Riga, Latvia, 09 January 2025. EFE\/EPA\/TOMS KALNINS\n\" data-image-title=\"Imagen-Lithuanian Foreign Minister: Russia will escalate subsea cable disruption unless stopped\" data-attachment-id=\"1590344\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/imagen-lithuanian-foreign-minister-russia-will-escalate-subsea-cable-disruption-unless-stopped-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/\/srv\/htdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/rss-efe7fa751391c5c5570b68f5de0be079ad22eada5d5w.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1280\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>He mentioned plans to build and equip an entire army division by 2030 as a capability-building project.<\/p>\n\n<p>Asked about Trump&#8217;s comments that he would not rule out military force as a means to make Danish-controlled Greenland part of the US, Budrys did not mention Trump&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;We are allies. And what we do as allies is we talk and we discuss. We don&#8217;t fight each other,&#8221; Budrys said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb size-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/\/srv\/htdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/rss-efe1c112552eb7e3ab8ec2a96d431d7ab20eed748f1w.jpg?fit=1920%2C1304&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys attends a joint press conference with his Latvian counterpart Baiba Braze (not pictured) after their talks in Riga, Latvia, 09 January 2025. EFE\/EPA\/TOMS KALNINS\n\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1304\" data-description=\"Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys attends a joint press conference with his Latvian counterpart Baiba Braze (not pictured) after their talks in Riga, Latvia, 09 January 2025. EFE\/EPA\/TOMS KALNINS\n\" data-image-title=\"Imagen-Lithuanian Foreign Minister: Russia will escalate subsea cable disruption unless stopped\" data-attachment-id=\"1590352\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/imagen-lithuanian-foreign-minister-russia-will-escalate-subsea-cable-disruption-unless-stopped-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/\/srv\/htdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/rss-efe1c112552eb7e3ab8ec2a96d431d7ab20eed748f1w.jpg?fit=1920%2C1304&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1304\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>The Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister also noted that with the new Trump administration, &#8220;there will be other things as a priority of our common agenda. And one of them will be how to preserve international law and the international order, irrespective, in many, many areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Welcoming Budrys on his first visit to Latvia, Latvia\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Baiba Bra\u017ee said she would not comment as Foreign Minister on Trump\u2019s statements about annexing Canada and Greenland, noting that Danish and Canadian officials had expressed their views on these matters.<\/p>\n\n<p>Regarding the disruption of subsea infrastructure, Bra\u017ee said that changes to international laws and rules pertaining to the sea were needed in order to more effectively combat deliberate damage to communication and electrical cables.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb size-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/\/srv\/htdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/rss-efe0951990815a75f2db87a4f009b06cbc35fbef8d8w.jpg?fit=1920%2C1302&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze attends a joint press conference with her Lithuanian counterpart Kestutis Budrys (not pictured) after their talks in Riga, Latvia, 09 January 2025. EFE\/EPA\/TOMS KALNINS\n\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1302\" data-description=\"Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze attends a joint press conference with her Lithuanian counterpart Kestutis Budrys (not pictured) after their talks in Riga, Latvia, 09 January 2025. EFE\/EPA\/TOMS KALNINS\n\" data-image-title=\"Imagen-Lithuanian Foreign Minister: Russia will escalate subsea cable disruption unless stopped\" data-attachment-id=\"1590348\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/imagen-lithuanian-foreign-minister-russia-will-escalate-subsea-cable-disruption-unless-stopped-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/\/srv\/htdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/rss-efe0951990815a75f2db87a4f009b06cbc35fbef8d8w.jpg?fit=1920%2C1302&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1302\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWe also have to understand that international law needs to develop because there are conventions, there is a convention on the role of the sea, there is a tribunal, nothing has been tested, nothing has been sort of tried around these type of situations, so probably that is another venue that needs to be advanced in our joint work, both within the region, but also within NATO,\u201d Bra\u017ee said.<\/p>\n\n<p>Both Foreign ministers also referred to Belarus as a hostile neighbor to both of their countries.<\/p>\n\n<p>Budrys called Belarus \u201ca platform to threaten the neighbors and especially those that are in support of the democratic movement of Belarus, mentioning the use of Belarus by Russian forces attacking Ukraine and the positioning of nuclear-capable missiles there.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;From these geopolitical and strategic threats, we can go down to the very practical part, because we have seen and still see in both countries the threat of illegal migration or the organization of migration down to the activities of the Belarusian military. So there is a whole spectrum of threats, and many of them are instruments of Russia,&#8221; Budrys added. 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