During a visit in Vilnius, the head of the Alliance dismissed Zhirinovsky's statements as completely unacceptable. The politician of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party had said that the Baltic states would be occupied or destroyed, if they chose to support military strikes on Syria.
"It would, of course, be easy to dismiss those statements as absurd," Rasmussen told journalists at the Lithuanian parliament on Friday.
“However, we also have to take such statements seriously and they are completely unacceptable. I would very much like to see official authorities in Russia distance themselves from such absurd statements," said the NATO chief.
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday he did not want to comment on statements that were senseless.
Earlier this week, Zhirinovsky issued a threat for the Baltic states, saying they would be occupied or destroyed, if they decided to support the Western invasion in Syria.
