International conference "Resisting economic coercion" to be held in Vilnius
On May 6-7, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is holding an international conference on building a resilient economy and resisting economic coercion. The event aims to draw attention to an increased use of economic coercion and to discuss the need for closer international cooperation and the possibilities of taking political means in response.
The events on the first day of the conference at the Merchant's Club in Vilnius will be public. During high-level panel discussions, international policymakers and representatives of business and academic communities from the European Union, the USA, Japan, Australia, and other countries will discuss the increasing use of economic coercion and the need to strengthen international cooperation to combat it.
Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabrielius Landsbergis, and Costa Rican Minister of Foreign Trade Manuel Tovar Rivera, U.S., will attend the conference, as well as the Under Secretary of State Jose W. Fernandez, Japanese Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Keiichi Ono, Michael Hager, Head of Cabinet of the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis, Eduard Hulicius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Bernd Lange, Chair of the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament, and Žygimantas Pavilionis, Chairman of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The second day of the conference will be held by the rules of Chatham House. It will be reserved for experts from EU institutions, the OECD, national administrations, who will discuss foreign and security policy recommendations on combating economic coercion.
Watch the first day's conference live here.
Those wishing to participate in the conference are invited to register by the end of today's working day, May 3.
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