On August 14 president Kersti Kaljulaid had a one-day official visit to Vilnius, Lithuania, where she met with president Gitanas Nausėda. “The current situation in Belarus is deeply disturbing,” president Kersti Kaljulaid said after the meeting.”Every nation has the right to determine its own way and future. What occurred in Belarus on Sunday and what has happened before and after that does not respect the rights of the Belarusian people. These elections cannot be regarded as honest, free or democratic, as far as current information shows. Sadly, we don’t know much of it, as independent observers were not allowed in the country, and that alone already makes acknowledging the declared elections results impossible,” she went on. The heads of state of both Estonia and Lithuania, together with those of Latvia and Poland issued a joint statement condemning widespread repressions in Belarus in the aftermath of last Sunday’s presidential elections which returned Alyaksandar Lukashenka for a sixth term but which have been widely condemned as rigged. President Kaljulaid also said that coordinated EU-level action was paramount.Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya recently took refuge in Lithuania.The two presidents discussed the issue of energy synchronization with the EU, a matter which also ties in with Belarus. President Kersti Kaljulaid had also a meeting with the speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis.