RUSSIA'S AGENDA BEHIND BELARUSIAN NUCLEAR PLANT (Stratfor, July 11, 2012)
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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...
LITHUANIA-BASED NATO ENERGY SECURITY CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IS OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED
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On July 10, a Vilnius-based NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence was officially established in NATO’s Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia, United States.Lithuanian, Latvian, Turkish and Italian military plenipotentiaries...
PRIME MINISTER: WE NEED TO REGAIN HISTORY AND AWARENESS (The Office of the Prime Minister, 10 July 2012)
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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.
LITHUANIA SPEAKS UP FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE TREATY ESTABLISHING STRICT STANDARDS FOR THE TRANSFER OF ALL CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS
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At the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty in New York, Lithuania’s representative stressed support for the legally binding, robust and ambitious treaty that would establish strict international standards for the transfer of...
IN WARSAW, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER DISCUSSES THE EVOLUTION AND PROSPECTS OF LITHUANIA-POLAND RELATIONS
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At the conference “Lithuanian-Polish relations: diagnosis and key challenges” in the University of Warsaw on July 9, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Egidijus Meilūnas discussed relations between Lithuania and Poland in the...
IN TOKYO, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER STRESSES THAT INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD CONTINUE TO DELIVER ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN
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At the Tokyo Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan on July 8, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius stressed the importance of the international community’s assistance to this country now and beyond 2014, and...
LITHUANIA AND OTHER NORDIC AND BALTIC COUNTRIES CONDEMN THE REPRESSION IN SYRIA
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At the third meeting of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People in Paris, Lithuania and other Nordic and Baltic countries issued a joint statement on the situation in Syria, which condemns the Syrian government for the massacre of its civilians...
LITHUANIAN-POLISH ECONOMIC COOPERATION: RECORD-BREAKING TRADE, ENERGY AND TRANSPORT PROJECTS
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At the seminar for experts “Poland and Lithuania: Building Prosperity in the Baltic Sea Region” in Warsaw on July 5, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Egidijus Meilūnas praised economic relations between both countries and...
EHU RECTOR THANKS LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER FOR HIS SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT OF THE BELARUSIAN UNIVERSITY IN EXILE
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On July 4, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis received a letter from the Rector of the European Humanities University (EHU) Anatoli Mikhailov. The Professor thanked the Minister for the consistent and sincere support that...
BALTIC STATES, IN EU, FIGHT RELIANCE ON RUSSIA GAS (Reuters, July 5, 2012)
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(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.