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VILNIUS HOSTS INFORMAL MEETING OF EU SECURITY POLICY DIRECTORS Added 2013-09-18 On 17-18 September, Vilnius hosted an informal meeting of EU Security Policy Directors, which discussed key issues on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) agenda and the preparation for the European Council in December with discussions on...
STATEMENT OF THE LITHUANIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON SYRIA CONFLICT Added 2013-09-17 The United Nations Mission Report on 16 September stated in clear and unequivocal terms that chemical weapons were used in Syria affecting civilian population. The use of chemical weapons under any circumstances is a grave violation of...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND CZECH AMBASSADOR MEET TO DISCUSS LITHUANIA’S EU COUNCIL PRESIDENCY AND BILATERAL COOPERATION Added 2013-09-17 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...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CALLS TO THE EU INSTITUTIONS TO URGE RUSSIA TO CEASE DISCRIMINATORY MEASURES Added 2013-09-17 On Tuesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius sent a letter to the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, the Vice-President of the European Commission Siim...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER CALLS ON BELARUS TO OPEN THE DOOR TO EUROPE Added 2013-09-16 On 16 September, the Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrius Krivas attended an annual seminar on the parliamentary dialogue between Belarus, the Nordic Council and the Baltic Assembly, which was organised by the Nordic Council and the...
MFA’S COMMENT REGARDING INTERPRETATIONS BY THE SPANISH PRESS OF LITHUANIA’S POSITION ON SPAIN’S INTERNAL ISSUES Added 2013-09-16 Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is concerned that the Spanish press tendentiously misinterprets Lithuania’s position on the Catalan issue.
IN VILNIUS, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH CHIEF NEGOTIATOR FOR SERBIA’S ACCESSION TO EU Added 2013-09-13 On 13 September in Vilnius, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičiaus and the Chief Negotiator for the accession of Serbia to the European Union Tanja Miščević discussed priorities for Lithuania’s Presidency of the...
VILNIUS HOSTS INFORMAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL WORKING GROUP ON ENLARGEMENT Added 2013-09-12 The informal meeting of the Council Working Group on Enlargement (COELA) on 11-12 September in Vilnius discussed EU enlargement issues: principles of managing the enlargement process, candidate countries’ progress towards accession,...
LITHUANIA’S EU COUNCIL PRESIDENCY ACTIVELY SEEKS PROGRESS IN TURKEY’S ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS Added 2013-09-12 On 12 September in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bağış discussed Lithuania’s Presidency of the EU Council, prospects for the...
THE LITHUANIAN PRESIDENCY PARTICIPATED IN THE STATE OF THE UNION DEBATE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Added 2013-09-12 Today during a European Parliament debate in Strasbourg in which the EC President José Manuel Barroso delivered the annual report on the State of the Union, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius spoke on the behalf of the EU...