LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER, STRESSES ACTIVE BILATERAL COOPERATION
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On 21 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres and the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss bilateral cooperation, Lithuania’s incoming Presidency...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER: LITHUANIA STRONGLY SUPPORTS IRISH EU PRESIDENCY IN NEGOTIATIONS ON MULTIANNUAL FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK
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On 21 May in Brussels, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Vytautas Leškevičius called on EU Ministers of European Affairs to confer wide powers on Irish Presidency of the EU Council to seek a political agreement in...
LITHUANIA FOREIGN MINISTER EXTENDS CONDOLENCES TO UNITED STATES AFTER A DEADLY OKLAHOMA TORNADO
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On 21 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius sent a letter of condolence to the United States Secretary of State John Kerry after a deadly tornado hit the Oklahoma City suburbs.
Linkevičius wrote in his letter:...
THE OFFICE OF LITHUANIAN EMBASSY TO AUSTRIA OPENS IN ZAGREB, CAPITAL OF EU’S NEW MEMBER STATE
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The Office of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Austria in Zagreb was opened on 20 May, a month before Croatia officially joins the growing EU family. The Speaker of the Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania Vydas Gedvilas and...
LITHUANIA’S INCOMING EU PRESIDENCY PRESENTED AT THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTRE HERZLIYA AND KNESSET IN ISRAEL
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On 20 May, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, who is visiting Israel, delivered a lecture “Lithuania’s Incoming Presidency: for creating a credible, growing and open Europe” at the Interdisciplinary...
CONSULTATIONS WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY FOCUS ON CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION
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On 20 May, consultations on key issues of bilateral cooperation of representatives from the Lithuanian and Russian Ministries of Foreign Affairs were held in Vilnius.
The consultations focused on the cross border cooperation of the two countries,...
IN ISRAEL, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER OPENS A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION OF WOODEN SYNAGOGUES OF LITHUANIA
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On 19 May in Tel Aviv, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius opened a photography exhibition “A Kaddish for Wooden Synagogues of Lithuania” at Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People.
“Lithuania...
LINKEVIČIUS MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER OF THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL AUTHORITY, STRESSES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RENEWAL OF PEACE TALKS
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On 19 May, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius visited the Palestinian National Authority. At the meeting with the Foreign Minister of the Palestinian National Authority Riyad Al-Maliki, he stressed the importance of the...
IN JERUSALEM, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER HONOURS HOLOCAUST VICTIMS
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On 19 May in Jerusalem, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius visited the World Centre for Holocaust Research – Yad Vashem – where he laid a wreath and paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust.
Linkevičius...
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONDEMNS THE ANTI-SEMITIC ACT IN PANEVĖŽYS
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On 18 May, Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius condemned the anti-Semitic act carried out in Panevėžys during which a swastika was painted on the doors of Panevėžys Youth school and the building of Jewish community of Panevėžys.