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On 4 June in Elsinore (Denmark), Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas met with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov and discussed the issues of bilateral and multilateral cooperation between Lithuania and Russia. Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed that Lithuania was interested in maintaining constructive relations with Russia that were beneficial to both countries and based on mutual respect and justice, in developing economic, business, academic, and youth ties.

Ministers V.Ušackas and S.Lavrov discussed preparation for the forthcoming meeting of the Lithuanian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission in Lithuania this autumn, agreed to accelerate the development of some intergovernmental agreements.

The Ministers stated that essentially the development of an agreement on travelling of border residents of the Republic of Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Region of Russian Federation had been finalised.

Ministers V.Ušackas and S.Lavrov agreed that the visa regime had to be further liberalized and that a joint address of Foreign Ministers of Lithuania, Poland and Russia to responsible institutions of the European Union regarding the possible visa-free regime for the residents of the Kaliningrad Region and respectively those of Lithuania and Poland had to be prepared together with Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski.

The Ministers also discussed the implementation of practical border crossing measures in the watercourses of the Curonian Lagoon in accordance with the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and the Government of the Russian Federation on the Navigation in the Curonian Lagoon and the Watercourses of the Republic of Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation that came into force in the middle of May.