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On 23 September in Brussels, a three-day meeting of Ambassadors of the Republic of Lithuania residing in the European Union (EU) and NATO states started, where diplomatic representatives of the country will discuss the topical issues of Europe and the security policy. This meeting will also continue discussions, which started in spring, on the new concept of the country’s foreign policy in the context of the changed international political status of Lithuania as a fully-fledged member of the EU and NATO. The first day of the event will be dedicated to meetings and discussions with top-ranking NATO officials and diplomats of other states on the international security, NATO policy and the future of the Alliance in the rapidly changing modern world. The next day, the Lithuanian Ambassadors will meet officials of the European Commission and the General Secretariat of the EU Council and discuss the topicalities of the EU policy. The special attention at the meeting will be directed to the issues of great importance to Lithuania, such as the future EU financial perspective, implementation of the Lisbon strategy, future of the EU cohesion policy, justice and home affairs and the EU policy towards its new neighbours in the East. The last day of the meeting will be devoted to the Ambassadors’ discussions with the Lithuanian diplomats working in the EU and NATO on effective representation of the country’s interests and the new conception of Lithuania’s foreign policy in the context of the changed international political status of the country. As Undersecretary of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Albinas Januška told prior to the meeting, the new currently developed Lithuanian foreign policy implied that the fully-fledged membership of the country in the EU and NATO would provide with new means and opportunities of representing the national interests in the international political community. “Today, while implementing the foreign policy we can base not only on our own diplomatic resource, but also on corresponding recourse of the EU and NATO. Thus to teach to use successfully and effectively this newly opening opportunities is the basic task of the Lithuanian diplomatic service. The event in Brussels will be devoted to that,” Albinas Januška said.