"The incident has been discussed with responsible US officials. We don’t comment on the president's security, logistical issues related to her visit and other issues the host country is responsible for," Mindaugas Lasas of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told BNS on Tuesday.
He did not say if Lithuania had submitted a diplomatic note to the United States.
During the incident in Lemont last Friday, people blocked the presidential cortege expressing their dissatisfaction over the outcome of the child custody case when a large police force took a girl from her deceased father's relatives so that the mother could regain her custody. People shouted "Shame, shame!" and held posters blaming the president and the country's authorities.
"Attempts are made in any democratic country to hear opinions expressed peacefully and not aggressively or the opinion of an opposite party. The president met with representatives of the majority of Lithuanian organizations in the US, and various issues, including the above-mentioned custody case, were discussed at the meeting," Grybauskaitė's chief adviser on foreign policy issues, Darius Semaška, told the Žinių Radijas (News Radio) on Tuesday.
"There are different opinions in Lithuania and in that community of Lithuanian Americans, and those different opinions were reflected. Some people say that a court order must be executed by all means in a rule-of-law country. Others have doubts whether, in this case, the girl's interests were taken into account during the execution of the court order," Semaška said.
Grybauskaitė underlined at the meeting with Lithuanian-Americans that Lithuania was a rule-of-law state and she could not call to ignore a court order. She also underlined that both sides were responsible in the child custody case.
