IN PARIS, LITHUANIAN AND FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS ITEMS ON EU AGENDA
On 3 June in Paris, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius to discuss priorities of Lithuania’s incoming Presidency of the EU Council, and key items on EU agenda. Fabius promised the full support of France to the Lithuanian Presidency and stressed that Lithuanian priorities, such as credible, growing, and open Europe, were important also to France.
The French Foreign Minister also thanked Lithuania for deploying military instructors to the EU’s training mission in Mali (EUTM Mali).
The Foreign Ministers discussed progress in the bilateral strategic partnership, especially steps to advance defence and military cooperation. The strategic partnership agreement between Lithuania and France was concluded in 2009. The countries signed the strategic partnership action plan in 2011.
Linkevičius thanked Fabius for the support of France to Lithuania’s goal of opening accession talks with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), also for the participation in the Exercise Steadfast Jazz, engagement in the activities of NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence, and active participation in the protection of the Baltic airspace. In May, a French Air Contingent officially took over the Baltic Air Policing mission for the fourth time.
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