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MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE BALTIC STATES AND GERMANY DISCUSSED EUROPEAN AND REGIONAL ISSUES Added 2012-08-23 During the annual meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Baltic States and Germany held on 23 August in Riga, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis and his colleagues discussed the most important issues of the European...
AUDRONIUS AŽUBALIS, URMAS PAET, EDGARS RINKĒVIČS, GUIDO WESTERWELLE: FOR THE EUROPEAN CULTURE OF TRUST Added 2012-08-23 23rd August, 1939 was a dark day for Europe. On that day, the Reich Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Molotov, the Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs, signed the heinous Hitler-Stalin Pact. The secret additional protocol to...
WORKING TOGETHER WE CAN TAKE RELATIONS BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND THE DIASPORA TO A NEW LEVEL, VICE-MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SAYS Added 2012-08-22 On August 22 in Vilnius, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė met the new head of the Board of Lithuanian World Community (LWC) Danguolė Navickienė and the Representative of the community in Lithuania,...
LITHUANIA DEVELOPING AS EU FOOTHOLD ON CHINA (The Baltic Times, 22 August 2012) Added 2012-08-22 Next month sees the 21st anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations between China and Lithuania, and it will come with hopes for a healthy growth in trade between the two countries, reports ChinaDaily.
FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER: EU PRESIDENCY IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING EUROPE CLOSER TO LITHUANIA (en.15min.lt, 17 August 2012) Added 2012-08-17 In the second half of 2013, Lithuania is assuming presidency over the Council of the European Union – an honour and duty rotating among the 27 EU member states. Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Vytautas Leškevičius...
AMBASSADOR OF BELARUS SUMMONED TO THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF LITHUANIA Added 2012-08-14 On August 14, Ambassador of Belarus to Lithuania, Vladimir Drazhin, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. During the meeting, the official European Union’s position on Belarus’ refusal to renew the accreditation...
LITHUANIA WILL REPRESENT DENMARK WHEN ISSUING SCHENGEN VISAS IN YEREVAN Added 2012-08-09 On August 15, the agreement on the reciprocal representation for the issue of Schengen visas between Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Denmark will enter into force, under which Lithuania will represent...
WE HAVE TO ADAPT TO THE CHANGING WORLD IN ORDER TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH WORLD LITHUANIANS, FOREIGN AFFAIRS VICE-MINISTER SAYS Added 2012-08-08 On August 8, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė took part in the session of the 14th World Lithuanian Symposium, which discussed cooperation between Lithuanian institutions and Lithuanian communities...
LITHUANIA URGED BELARUS TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO SUSPEND DANGEROUS WATER LEVEL DROP IN THE NEMUNAS RIVER Added 2012-08-06 On August 2, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and requested to take immediate action to suspend the water level drop in the river Nemunas, to inform on the reasons...
PARTICIPANTS OF YOUTH EXPEDITION TO SIBERIA RECEIVE A NOVEL BY AMERICAN AUTHOR, WHICH WILL HELP THEM GAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MISSION Added 2012-08-03 On August 3 in Vilnius, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius welcomed back participants of the expedition “Mission Siberia 2012” and presented them a book about a Lithuanian family exiled to Siberia, which...