BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that concerns over the safety of Lithuanian diplomats in China were groundless, a day after the country’s diplomatic delegation and their dependents left China in a hastily arranged departure. Claims that Lithuanian diplomats feared for their personal safety, or that China forbade its citizens from working at the representative office, are “purely fictitious,” foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a regular daily briefing. Lithuanian authorities said on Wednesday they had summoned their top diplomat back from China for “consul…

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