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Lithuania supports referring the human rights situation in North Korea to international criminal justice mechanism Added 2014-04-18 17 April, New York. “Widespread and gross human rights violations are being committed by the state almost on an industrial scale. In many instances, as stated by the Commission of Inquiry, the violations in North Korea constitute grave crimes...
Lithuania calls on Russia to stop spreading disinformation and expresses support to the work of UN HRMMU Added 2014-04-17 16 April, New York. “Crimea’s annexation and now the destabilization of eastern Ukraine is not about the protection of Russian speaking minorities or alleged Ukraine’s radical extremism. It is about obstructing and preventing the May 25...
Lithuanian Foreign Minister and the new representative of the Holy See discuss further cooperation Added 2014-04-17 On 16 April in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the new Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania, Archbishop Pedro López Quintana. The meeting discussed the countries’ cooperation within international...
Fourth Lithuania-Pakistan political consultations held in Islamabad Added 2014-04-17 The fourth bilateral political consultations between the Lithuanian and Pakistani Foreign Ministries were held on 16-17 April in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. The consultations focused on cooperation and prospects for cooperation in the...
Lithuania establishes diplomatic relations with Sierra Leone Added 2014-04-16 On 15 April in New York, the Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the United Nations, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė and the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, Ambassador Vandi Chidi Minah signed a Joint Communiqué...
Lithuania-France political consultations focus on bilateral cooperation, issues on the international agenda Added 2014-04-16 On 15 April in Paris, the Political Director of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Dalius Čekuolis met with the Political Director of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jacques Audibert. The meeting focused on events in Ukraine, as well as...
EU Foreign Ministers approve macro-financial assistance to Ukraine Added 2014-04-15 The Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 14 April in Luxembourg, which was also attended by the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, approved macro-financial assistance of up to € 1 billion to support Ukraine’s economic...
Lithuania urges Russia to cease any further actions aimed at destabilizing Ukraine Added 2014-04-14 “Lithuania is deeply concerned with the sharp deterioration of the situation in Eastern Ukraine. External forces and provocateurs continue to fuel separatism and hatred, destabilizing the situation in the Eastern Ukraine,” the Permanent...
Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania on the situation in eastern Ukraine Added 2014-04-13 We express strong support to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.    We condemn actions of the separatists in the Donetsk region and other eastern regions of Ukraine – in Luhansk and Kharkiv. By means of such actions...
Lithuanian and Swedish Foreign Ministers sign maritime boundary agreement Added 2014-04-11 Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Swedish Foreign Minster Carl Bildt signed the Agreement between the Government of Lithuania and the Government of Sweden on the Delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental...