The President noted that the moral authority of the Holy See was of paramount importance at this most difficult time for Europe and the world. “In the middle of Europe, a huge gaping wound has opened – Russia’s military aggression against the Ukrainian people,” the President wrote in his message of congratulations. Recalling that, by launching this war Russia had not only demolished the well-established European security framework, but also trampled all human values, including the right to life, the President assured Pope Francis that Lithuania together with the democratic world joined the Pontiff’s call for an end to the madness of the war.
“The people of Lithuania are doing the very utmost to help their fellow Ukrainians by sending humanitarian aid and welcoming war refugees. Ukraine’s resistance to foreign invasion reminds us of our own history. The same invader, the same brutal, inhumane methods. Lithuania knows the price of freedom. I firmly believe that the world’s democratic community together with all people of goodwill will unite and stop the aggressor’s insanity,” the President wrote in his message of congratulations.
Gitanas Nausėda assured Pope Francis that he would support, in every way possible, the efforts of the Catholic Church to preserve peace in the world and sent his personal most cordial best wishes, those of his family and the people of Lithuania, to the Pope.
