IN BRATISLAVA, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER AND THE U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE DISCUSS REGIONAL SECURITY
At the GLOBSEC Bratislava Global Security Forum on 3 March, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Assistant for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon discussed issues of regional security policy and bilateral relations.E.Ignatavičius and Ph.Gordon exchanged views on the situation in Belarus, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and the South Caucasus, which the U.S. official had visited just before the meeting.
The Vice-Minister acquainted the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State with the activities of Lithuania’s chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in finding the way to settle protracted conflicts.E.Ignatavičius informed Ph.Gordon about Lithuania’s Presidency of the Community of Democracies and about the Community’s ministerial meeting, which will be held on 1 July in Lithuania. They agreed to further closely cooperate and to exchange information in the field of collective defence.
A meeting of E.Ignatavičius, Deputy Commander of NATO’s Allied Land Component Command in Europe, Lt. Gen. Jack Gardner and the U.S. diplomats at NATO is scheduled on 4 March.
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