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RUSSIA'S AGENDA BEHIND BELARUSIAN NUCLEAR PLANT (Stratfor, July 11, 2012) Added 2012-07-11 Russia and Belarus are expected to sign the final contract of an energy agreement whereby Russia will construct Belarus' first nuclear power plant, in the city of Astraviec. The agreement, likely to be signed sometime in July, stipulates that...
PRIME MINISTER: WE NEED TO REGAIN HISTORY AND AWARENESS (The Office of the Prime Minister, 10 July 2012) Added 2012-07-10 Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius met with the Lithuanian Jewish community to discuss preservation of Jewish cultural and historic heritage, commemoration of the Holocaust, and education of the Jewish minority.
BALTIC STATES, IN EU, FIGHT RELIANCE ON RUSSIA GAS (Reuters, July 5, 2012) Added 2012-07-05 (Reuters) - Flat, featureless Pig's Back island off Lithuania is where the country hopes to moor a gas terminal in 2014 and escape total reliance on supplies from Russia, two decades after the Baltic states threw off Moscow's political rule.
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER BELIEVES RUSSIA WILL ONE DAY APOLOGIZE FOR OCCUPATION (15 min.lt, 25 June 2012) Added 2012-06-25 Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis says he believes that time will come when Russia will apologize and stop denying occupation.
LITHUANIA AND INDIA CELEBRATE 20TH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS ANNIVERSARY (The Baltic Course, 15 June 2012) Added 2012-06-15 At the event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Lithuania and India on 14 June, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Asta Skaisgiryte Liauskiene emphasized active cultural cooperation and...
LITHUANIAN FORMIN SEES ACTIVE ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY AS ONLY RESCUE IN GLOBAL COMPETITION (BNS, 11 June 2012) Added 2012-06-11 VILNIUS, Jun 11, BNS – Lithuania's Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis has referred to active economic diplomacy as the only way to survive the global competition and continuing tensions on world markets.
EX-LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES AWARD FOR SUPPORT OF LITHUANIAN-POLISH COOPERATION (BNS, 4 June 2012) Added 2012-06-04 VILNIUS, Jun 04, BNS – Former Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus received the Jan Nowak-Jezioranski Award for his support of Lithuanian-Polish cooperation on Monday in the Polish city of Wroclaw.
1ST US SHIPMENT FROM AFGHANISTAN REACHES LITHUANIA'S KLAIPEDA SEAPORT (BNS, 28 May 2012) Added 2012-05-28 VILNIUS, May 28, BNS – The first group of containers with non-military cargo of the United States serving in the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) that is leaving Afghanistan has reached the Lithuanian seaport of Klaipeda,...
FRENCH AMBASSADOR MARYSE BERNIAU ON GOOD MANNERS, FEMINISM, AND HISTORIC UPHEAVALS (15min.lt, 24 May 2012) Added 2012-05-24 It takes time before a Lithuanian truly opens up, says Maryse Berniau, the Ambassador of France residing in Vilnius since last autumn.
NATO SUMMIT DECLARATION INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR ENERGY SECURITY CENTER IN LITHUANIA (BNS, May 22, 2012) Added 2012-05-22 VILNIUS, May 22, BNS – The declaration of the NATO Chicago Summit underlines the importance of energy security and also includes support for the Energy Security Center in Lithuania.