LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND CZECH AMBASSADOR MEET TO DISCUSS LITHUANIA’S EU COUNCIL PRESIDENCY AND BILATERAL COOPERATION
On 17 September, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with the Czech Ambassador to Lithuania Radek Pech to discuss Lithuania’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, bilateral cooperation, and other important issues. The head of the Lithuanian diplomacy acquainted the Czech diplomat with Lithuania’s EU Presidency and further plans, presented Lithuania’s position on the situation in the Eastern Neighbourhood in the run-up to the next Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius. The Ambassador R.Pech assessed Lithuania’s EU Council Presidency very positively and stressed that his country was interested in the successful development of the Eastern Partnership programme.
The officials also highlighted close cooperation between the countries that joined the EU together - Lithuania and the Czech Republic – and had close positions on various issues considered by the EU and NATO. The Lithuanian Foreign Minister and the Ambassador drew attention to the intensifying cultural and economic cooperation, discussed possible visits of officials from the two countries as well as joint initiatives.
The Czech Ambassador R.Pech presented his letters of credence to the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė on 1 February 2010.
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