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On 24 May in Washington, D.C., a delegation of Lithuanian parliamentarians and diplomats met with the U.S. Senate’s Assistant Majority Leader (Democratic Whip) of the Lithuanian descent, Senator Richard J. Durbin and thanked him for a long-standing support of Lithuania.

Among the participants of the meeting there were: Member of the European Parliament Vytautas Landsbergis, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Seimas (Parliament) Emanuelis Zingeris, Member of the Seimas Mantas Adomėnas and Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Egidijus Meilūnas. They invited the Senator to further cooperate and strengthen ties between Lithuania and the United States.

Lithuanian and the U.S. politicians and diplomats also discussed the situation in Belarus and security issues of the nuclear power plants that are planned to be constructed in Lithuania’s neighbourhood.  

Lithuanian representatives requested the U.S.A. to make the security of the implemented nuclear projects part of the U.S. security dialogue with Russia.

On the same day at the Embassy of the country in Washington, D.C., the Lithuanian delegation met with Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

The event that was organized at the Embassy, was attended by the U.S. Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner, other officials of the U.S. administration and Congress, President of the National Endowement for Democracy Carl Gershman, representatives from such non-governmental policy institutes, as the Atlantic Council and the Heritage Foundation, foreign ambassadors, journalists, members of business community and the Lithuanian community in Washington, D.C.

 “We are glad to welcome the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives at the Lithuanian Embassy, ​​which is the symbol of freedom of Lithuania and the U.S. policy of non-recognition of the annexation of Lithuania,” Vice-Minister E.Meilūnas said.

At the meeting, I.Ros-Lehtinen assessed Lithuania’s two-year Presidency of the Community of Democracies that ends this summer.