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A JOINT MEETING BETWEEN THE CBSS COMMITTEE OF SENIOR OFFICIALS AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION WAS HELD IN BRUSSELS Added 2010-02-01 On 26 January, a meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) was held in Brussels. It was chaired by Ambassador Neris Germanas, Head of the Secretariat for . The participants of the meeting approved...
LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN Added 2010-01-27 On 28 January, Lithuania’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius will take part in the international London conference on Afghanistan. The support of international community to the consolidation of security, welfare and democracy...
MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE IS ASSIGNED AS LITHUANIA’S ACTING MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Added 2010-01-27 On 26 January 2010, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė issued a decree, assigning Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė as Lithuania’s Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs until the new Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign...
INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY WILL BE MARKED IN LITHUANIA Added 2010-01-25 On 27 January, school communities in various Lithuanian cities and districts will mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day: at 21 schools lessons will be given to explain the pupils about the significance of this day, as well as film...
IN BRUSSELS, EU FOREIGN MINISTERS PAID CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION TO THE ISSUES OF AFGHANISTAN Added 2010-01-25 On 25 January, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas attended the European Union’s General Affairs Council and Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. The EU foreign ministers discussed the programme of the Spanish EU Presidency,...
LITHUANIAN DIPLOMAT APPOINTED AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN MOLDOVA Added 2010-01-25 Lithuanian diplomat Birutė Abraitienė is appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Moldova. The Government of Lithuania delegated B.Abraitienė to this position.
LITHUANIA LOSES A PROMINENT LITVAK POET Added 2010-01-22 Founder of the Lithuanian Jewish State Museum, internationally renowned Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, 96, passed away in Tel Aviv on 20 January. This deeply spiritual man had survived one of the most tragic events in the history of our country.
TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS EXPERT PRESENTS HIS BOOK ON THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GEORGIA Added 2010-01-22 The book “A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West” by Ronald Asmus was presented on 22 January in Vilnius. The author is the Executive Director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center and responsible for...
LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER VYGAUDAS UŠACKAS PRESENTED A RESIGNATION LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER Added 2010-01-21 On 21 January, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas presented a resignation letter to Prime Minister of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius.
STYLIZED PATTERNS OF WOVEN LITHUANIAN SASHES WILL SYMBOLIZE THE TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE Added 2010-01-20 The slogan ‘Believe in Freedom’ and stylized patterns of woven Lithuanian sashes will symbolise the twentieth anniversary of the Re-establishment of Lithuania’s Independence. The pattern is the main graphical symbol in the logo of the anniversary,...