LITHUANIA READY TO ISSUE SAME FORM VISAS AS EU COUNTRIES
Added 2004-04-29
As of 1 May this year, the diplomatic missions and consular offices of the Republic of Lithuania in foreign countries will issue visas of a new type, the form of which was set by an EU Council Regulation and is obligatory to all the European Union...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER UNDERSCORES EU POSSIBILITIES TO ENHANCE COOPERATION WITH EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Added 2004-04-28
On 28 April, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis welcomed the participants of the regional seminar The New Trade Agenda after the EU Enlargement and underlined the economic and geopolitical aspects of the European Union enlargement,...
LITHUANIA DESTRUCTS ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES
Added 2004-04-27
Following Lithuania’s international commitments, in April the countries’ Armed Forces began destroying anti-personnel landmines in Kazlų Rūda.
In the name of promoting a mine-free world, all of 3925 anti-personnel mines currently in stock and...
LITHUANIAN-CHINESE COOPERATION COMMISSION SESSION TAKES PLACE IN BEIJING
Added 2004-04-27
On 22 April, a session of the Lithuanian-Chinese Economic Cooperation Commission took place at the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, with participation of Undersecretary of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Darius Jurgelevičius. The Chinese...
LITHUANIAN TRADE REGIME WITH RUSSIA NOT TO CHANGE DUE TO EU-RUSSIA PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT – FOREIGN MINISTER
Added 2004-04-23
The European Union and the Russia Federation has already settled the main issue of negotiations on Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, an extension of the pending Agreement to the new members of the bloc, including Lithuania.
Commenting on...
WORKS BY RUSNĖ SPECIALISED BOARDING-SCHOOL PUPILS PRESENTED TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS
Added 2004-04-22
On 22 April, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, an exhibition of creative works by Rusnė Specialised Boarding-School pupils was presented to members of the Diplomatic Corps residing in Lithuania: woman Ambassadors and...
LITHUANIA ISSUES REPORT ON IMPLEMENTING NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
Added 2004-04-20
On 20 April, with a view to the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) commencing on 26 April 2004 in New York, Lithuania issued its...
LITHUANIAN-FRENCH MFA POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS TAKE PLACE IN PARIS
Added 2004-04-20
In Paris, political consultations were held by the Lithuanian and French Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with a view to the oncoming NATO Summit in Istanbul in June 2004. The topical issues discussed were the situation in Iraq and Kosovo, the...
FOREIGN UNDERSECRETARY MEETS CZECH PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION
Added 2004-04-20
On 19 April in Vilnius, Undersecretary of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Šarūnas Adomavičius and the delegation of the Committee for Defence and Security of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, led by its Chairman Jan...
LITHUANIAN EMBASSY OFFICIALLY OPENED IN IRELAND
Added 2004-04-16
On 15 April in Dublin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania officially opened Lithuania’s embassy in Ireland.
In his speech of welcome, Minister Valionis stated that the opening of the embassy in this historic spring, when...