Lithuanian and Ukrainian Foreign Ministers discuss bilateral and multilateral cooperation
Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, as part of the delegation led by President Dalia Grybauskaitė, visited Kyiv on 24 November. During the visit, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin to discuss the situation in Ukraine, bilateral cooperation and partnership within international organisations.
The Ukrainian Minister thanked Lithuania for its active role in the United Nations Security Council and for raising Ukrainian question in the European Union, NATO and other international organisations.
L.Linkevičius noted that the Lithuanian Embassy to Ukraine would assume the duties of a NATO Contact Point Embassy in 2015-2016. On the occasion of taking this mandate from Poland, the Foreign Ministers of all three countries plan a joint event.
P.Klimkin said that Lithuania’s support was very important for Ukraine, as well as expert consultations in striving to implement the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement successfully, to which the Government of Ukraine attached priority attention.
The 7th meeting of the Council of Presidents of Ukraine and Lithuania took place in Kyiv on 24 November. The meeting discussed cooperation in the fields of defence, energy and foreign policy, as well as public information issue and the issue of business climate improvement.
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