The letter undersigned by 38 Hungarian intellectuals says that Ambassador Yushka has noted during the conversation that he supports Armenians in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict as “they are Christians affected by the Stalinist regime that changed the territory of their country like the territory of Lithuania.”
"Having heard about past statements by Mr. Yushko in a similar tone and not doubting the authenticity of the published recording, we express our indignation at the fact that a person who bases his support for a party to the conflict not on the norms of international law, but a religious identity is accredited as ambassador to our country. This reminds us of a primitive vocabulary of medieval times of the Crusades,” say the authors of the letter.
The authors also note that the statements made by Mr. Yushko are a stain on the image of the Lithuanian diplomacy and show his full professional discrepancy.
"We, the undersigned citizens of Hungary, demand from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country to deprive this person of a diplomatic accreditation and to send him home for a repetition of the school and university curriculum," according to the authors of the letter.
Hungarian intellectuals protest Lithuanian envoy`s biased Karabakh remarks
10 August 2013
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A group of Hungarian public members has sent a letter to Secretary of State of Hungary Nemeth Zsolt to protest against an audio recording of a telephone conversation between Ambassador of Lithuania to Hungary Renatas Yushko and Deputy Director of the Department of the Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Zenonas Kumitaytis recently disclosed by the media.
