Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 14Vilnius is seriously afraid of the bill submitted to the State Duma to refuse recognition of Lithuania's independence, Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told Foreign Policy. «I would call it a threat, a direct threat to Lithuania , and we take all these threats seriously,» Landsbergis explained. According to him, Lithuania treats Fedorov's initiative with increased attention, despite the fact that it does not come from senior officials. «We take very seriously everything that they say in Moscow,” the Lithuanian diplomat added. Yevgeny Fedorov submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the abolition of the resolution of the USSR State Council «On the recognition of the independence of the Republic of Lithuania», the explanatory note to the document states that the decision is illegal, since it was adopted by an unconstitutional body and with violation of the requirements of several articles of the Constitution of the USSR. Fedorov pointed to a violation of the USSR Law «On the Procedure for Resolving Issues Related to the Secession of a Union Republic from the USSR», since Lithuania did not hold a referendum on secession from the USSR and did not establish a transitional period for considering all contentious issues .
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