LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY DISCUSSED LITHUANIA’S UPCOMING CHAIRMANSHIP
On 18 October in Vilnius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis held a meeting with Parliamentary Assembly (PA) President of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Petros Efthymiou and the OSCE PA Secretary General Spencer Oliver, and discussed with them the priorities of Lithuania’s upcoming OSCE chairmanship.
The Foreign Minister and the OSCE officials also discussed closer cooperation between Lithuania as an upcoming chairmanship of the organization and the OSCE PA in order to enhance regional security, economic prosperity and to ensure respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.P.Efthymiou invited Minister A.Ažubalis to attend the opening of the winter session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in late February 2011 in Vienna and promised to support the programme of Lithuania’s OSCE chairmanship.
The OSCE PA officials came to Lithuania to take part in the session dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act at the Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania.
Lithuania will assume the OSCE chairmanship on 1 January 2011 and will hold it for one year. Lithuania’s chairmanship intends to focus on the implementation of the decisions that will be made during the 2010 OSCE Summit of Heads of State or Government in Astana on 1-2 December. Lithuania’s chairmanship also intends to promote the fulfillment of the commitments in the political and military, economic and environmental, and human dimensions that are set out in the OSCE documents, as well as to continue looking for solutions to protracted conflicts and to promote regional cooperation.
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