“Be tough on all those who steal from you and allow no politician and no oligarch to lie to you, to rob Moldova and the Moldovan people and demand that they should be responsible,” the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė said in an interview for Radio Free Europe, addressing the Moldovan people, IPN reports.

Dalia Grybauskaitė noted that the Moldovan people can be convinced of the necessity of reforms by comparison. “Compare the situation in your country with the level of corruption, quality of justice, fundamental freedoms, living standards, streets, homes and everything in the EU and you will see the difference,” she stated.

Asked what the message of the Riga Summit for the EaP member states should be, the Lithuanian head of state said that from political viewpoint the message is that these countries are yet important for Europe and that sooner or later they will see their neighbors in Europe. “But we must tell them again that many things depend only on them and this means that the homework must be done well and reforms must be implemented. And this is not only the ticket for the EU. This is the ticket for a better future for you,” said Dalia Grybauskaitė.

The President of Lithuania paid an official visit to Moldova on April 22, at the invitation of President Nicolae Timofti.