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On 13 November, Lithuania’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius, along with the representatives of other participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), is attending an event marking the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Berlin Declaration on anti-Semitism in the capital of Germany.  

According to the Vice-Minister, over the past 10 years Lithuania has made significant progress in the field of Holocaust education and the perpetuation of the memory of the victims. This year, children from more than a thousand Lithuanian schools joined the initiatives to commemorate the victims of the genocide.

The Declaration was adopted at the Conference, which was held in Berlin in 2004. In this Declaration, the OSCE participating States acknowledged that anti-Semitism had taken on new forms, which posed a threat to security and stability. The OSCE participating States committed themselves to combat anti-Semitism, as well as to promote educational programmes and Holocaust remembrance.

Ten years later the German Federal Foreign Office, Switzerland’s Chairmanship of the OSCE and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights organised the event in Berlin, which discusses achievements in this field and the OSCE participating States will renew their commitments to combat contemporary forms of anti-Semitism.

From left to right: Ambassador to Germany Deividas Matulionis, Chair of the Lithuanian Jewish Community Faina Kukliansky and Vice-Minister Mantvydas Bekešius.