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On 18 June in Brussels, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas met with EU’s Foreign Ministers and discussed perspectives of European security.

Foreign Ministers discussed the preparation for the forthcoming informal meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in the island of Corfu, during which the future of European security will be discussed.

The Ministers agreed that the EU had to speak in one voice and aim at coming up with joint transatlantic position in discussions regarding European security.

“All of the OSCE countries have to take part in the discussions and they should not aim at essentially reforming current transatlantic security institutions: the EU, NATO, OSCE and the Council of Europe. We also should not in advance undertake to conclude a new legally binding security agreement in Europe,” said Minister V.Ušackas.

Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs highlighted that aiming at guaranteeing European security, special attention has to be dedicated to the fulfilment of the undertaken obligations.

Today the European Union passed a declaration, where regrets were expressed regarding the Russian veto on the technical roll-over of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) to extend the presence of the Mission. In this declaration the EU also recalled its aim to strengthen EU-Georgia relations.

Minister V.Ušackas suggested that the EU colleagues should aim to allot more equally the international support to Afghanistan, to strengthen relatively secure, but backward provinces, such as Ghor and to envisage the EU financing to the implementation of various projects of infrastructure. Head of diplomacy also conveyed Lithuania’s intentions to strengthen civilian activities of the Lithuania-led Provincial Reconstruction Team. The Minister presented the efforts to attract other countries to the activities of reconstruction and development of the Ghor Province.