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LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS HIS EU COUNTERPARTS IN ITALY Added 2003-09-08 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis attended a two-day informal meeting of foreign ministers of the European Union member states and acceding countries having started on September 5 in Riva Delgarda, Italy. During a debate at lunch, 25...
FOREIGN UNDERSECRETARY ADJUSTS LITHUANIA’S POSITION FOR THE UPCOMING EU INTER-GOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE Added 2003-09-02 Lithuania approves, in principle, the constitutional and political balance defined in the draft EU Constitutional Treaty and takes the view that additional discussions at the inter-governmental conference will be needed only on several issues....
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER RAISES ISSUE OF COMMON PROTECTION OF BALTIC SEA AGAINST POLLUTION Added 2003-09-01 At the meeting of Nordic and Baltic countries’ foreign ministers (NB8) held on 29 August in Riga, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis stressed Lithuania’s concern about the plans of the Russian company “Lukoil” to pump oil out...
LITHUANIA AND SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO EXPAND LEGAL GROUNDS FOR BILATERAL RELATIONS Added 2003-08-27 On 27 August in Vilnius, Foreign Minister of Serbia and Montenegro Goran Svilanovic and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis signed a bilateral agreement on cooperation in the spheres of education, science, culture and sports. At the...
RATIFICATION LETTERS OF LITHUANIAN-RUSSIAN TREATIES EXCHANGED Added 2003-08-12 On 12 August Lithuanian Foreign Minster Antanas Valionis and Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Lithuania Yuri Zubakov exchanged ratification instruments of the Treaty on the State Border and the Treaty on...
CZECH SENATE RATIFIES PROTOCOLS OF LITHUANIA’S ACCESSION TO WASHINGTON TREATY Added 2003-08-08 On 7 August 2003, the Czech upper parliamentary chamber - the Senate – ratified the NATO accession protocols of Lithuania and other six Central and Eastern European countries. 60 out of 64 senators present during the vote were in favour of the...
EU COMMISSIONER ACCEPTS INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BALTIC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SESSION Added 2003-07-31 Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Relations with the European Parliament, Transport and Energy Loyola de Palacio del Valle-Lersundi accepted an invitation of the Lithuanian Government to participate at the Baltic...
LITHUANIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS DISCUSSED Added 2003-07-30 On 29 July, Lithuanian Foreign Vice-Minister Justas Vincas Paleckis received a delegation of Chinese Parliamentarians led by Vice-Chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Uyunqimg. At the meeting, the participants...
FOREIGN MINISTER ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF SEVEN DIPLOMATS Added 2003-07-25 On 24 July, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis signed the orders to dismiss seven Lithuanian diplomats. The Minister did so after receiving a recommendation from the State Security Department (SSD) to cancel the diplomats’ permission...
LITHUANIAN AND RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS BILATERAL RELATIONS BY TELEPHONE Added 2003-07-24 On 23 July, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis discussed topical bilateral issues with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov by telephone. The Ministers rejoiced over well developing Lithuanian-Russian bilateral relations. During...