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LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER CALLS ON THE EUROPEAN UNION TO OPEN UP MORE IN RESPONSE TO THE PROGRESS OF ITS EASTERN PARTNERS Added 2012-10-16 At the consultations of the three Baltic States, Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia in Luxembourg on 15 October, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Vytautas Leškevičius said that the European Union should take further steps to...
THE LITHUANIA-PAKISTAN BILATERAL CONSULTATIONS FOCUS ON FURTHERING DEVELOPMENT Added 2012-10-15 On 15 September in Vilnius, representatives from the Foreign Ministries of Lithuania and Pakistan held bilateral political consultations. The discussion focused on ways to strengthen political, economic, cultural and scientific cooperation.
FOREIGN MINISTERS OF LITHUANIA AND MONACO DISCUSS POSSIBILITIES FOR ENHANCING COOPERATION Added 2012-10-15 On 15 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis and José Badia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Monaco discussed important issues related to the United Nations and the European Union, and...
A TALE OF TWO QUIRKY CITIES (Sunday Independent, 14 October 2012) Added 2012-10-14 The most common questions you get asked when you tell people you are going to Lithuania are: is it in Europe? Do they use the euro? And, why Lithuania? To which the answers are, respectively: yes, no and why not?
CONNECTING LITHUANIA AND THE DIASPORA (VilNews, 13 October 2012) Added 2012-10-13 Gintė Damušis, newly appointed Ambassador at Large for relations with the Lithuanian World Community interviewed by Aage Myhre, VilNews Editor-in-Chief
LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN MINISTRY IS COMMITTED TO ITS “GLOBAL LITHUANIA” PROGRAMME (VilNews, 13 October 2012) Added 2012-10-13 Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis is personally committed to the “Global Lithuania” program and to strengthening ties with the diaspora. During a recent working visit to the United States, he made a special trip to a national...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CONFIRMS THAT THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS A FUTURE Added 2012-10-12 Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis stressed that the EU’s Nobel Peace Prize was an assessment of issues of fundamental value, which sometimes went unnoticed by us or were even ignored.
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND THE NEW BELGIAN AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BILATERAL COOPERATION AND LITHUANIA’S FORTHCOMING PRESIDENCY OF THE EU COUNCIL Added 2012-10-12 On 12 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis met with the Ambassador of Belgium to Lithuania Peter Lescouhier and discussed with him possibilities to advance bilateral political and economic partnership, and priorities...
NATO’S ACCREDITATION OF THE ENERGY SECURITY CENTRE IS A PERFECT ASSESSMENT OF LITHUANIA’S MEMBERSHIP IN THE ALLIANCE, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS Added 2012-10-12 Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis welcomed the decision taken by the North Atlantic Council on 12 October to accredit the Vilnius-based Energy Security Centre. The Minister stressed that this was the most wonderful...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND NEW ESTONIAN AMBASSADOR TO LITHUANIA DISCUSS JOINT REGIONAL PROJECTS Added 2012-10-12 On 11 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis met with the new Estonian Ambassador to Lithuania Toomas Kukk and discussed with him bilateral relations, prospects for their further development and joint regional projects.