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At the extraordinary European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council on 10 March in Brussels, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Egidijus Meilūnas strongly supported the democratization processes in Tunisia and Egypt, and stressed Lithuania’s readiness to contribute to the solution of the Libyan crisis.

“The EU’s support to the countries of Southern European neighborhood has to be effective and depend on each country’s results when implementing democratic reforms,” Foreign Vice-Minister E.Meilūnas said.

The Foreign Vice-Minister also stressed the necessity to continue paying the attention of the EU to Eastern European neighborhood.

The Vice-Minister spoke in favor of the EU’s actions coordination with the United Nations, NATO, Arab League, other international and regional organizations, in order to resolve the crisis in Libya. The Foreign Vice-Minister noted that Lithuania, as the Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), was ready to contribute to the civil society assistance and to the organizing of free and democratic elections in the countries of the North Africa region.

The Vice-Minister also thanked the EU member states that helped Lithuanian citizens leave Libya.

The extraordinary EU’s Foreign Affairs Council meeting was organized to discuss the situation in Libya and in other countries of the EU’s Southern Neighborhood, and to prepare for the debate on the same topic, which will be held during the extraordinary European Council meeting on 11 March.