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OSCE CHAIRPERSON URGES RESPECT FOR FAIR TRIAL STANDARDS IN TYMOSHENKO CASE Added 2011-08-08 VILNIUS, 8 August 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, today expressed concern over the decision of a Kyiv court to detain former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, in a telephone...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND KALININGRAD GOVERNOR DISCUSS KEY ISSUES OF BILATERAL COOPERATION Added 2011-08-07 On 7 August, during an informal meeting of Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis and Governor of Kaliningrad Region Nikolai Tsukanov visiting Lithuania the key issues of cooperation between Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Region...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CONSISTENTLY SUPPORTS EFFORTS TO ENSURE HUMAN RIGHTS IN BELARUS Added 2011-08-05 Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has consistently supported efforts to ensure human rights and to strengthen civil society in Belarus and together with other Lithuanian institutions seeks to prevent the use of bilateral legal cooperation...
OSCE CHAIRPERSON CONDEMNS CONTINUED ACTION BY BELARUS AGAINST CIVIL SOCIETY Added 2011-08-05 VILNIUS, 5 August 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, today expressed deep concern over the continued worsening of the human right situation in Belarus, citing the arrest of Aliaksandr...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY EXPRESSES ITS STRONG PROTEST AGAINST THE DETENTION OF BELARUSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST Added 2011-08-05 Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses its strong protest against the detention of the head of the Belarusian non-governmental organisation "Vesna" Ales Belyatsky and actions against the human rights organization he is heading.
BOUND BY BROTHERLY TIES (The Baltic Times, 3 August, 2011) Added 2011-08-03 Bound by sister languages, similar cultures and a shared history, Latvian-Lithuanian relations today are like a rapidly increasing brotherly friendship. These two countries together endured Soviet occupation before regaining their independence....
A. VINKUS RECEIVES AN AWARD FOR MERITS AT LITHUANIAN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE Added 2011-08-02 On 2 August in Nida Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis presented the medal of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “For Merits at the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service” to Ambassador Antanas Vinkus, who currently...
SERVING JUSTICE IN JANUARY 13TH CASE IS A RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL DEMOCRATIC STATES, THE LETTER OF BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER READS Added 2011-08-02 On 1 August  Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis received a letter of Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Nickolay Mladenov in which support for Lithuania‘s efforts to achieve justice in the January 13th case was...
TRAGEDY IN MEDININKAI OBLIGATES US TO SEEK FOR HISTORICAL JUSTICE, LITHUANIAN VICE-MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SAYS Added 2011-08-01 On 31 July, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė during a ceremony marking the 20th  anniversary of the tragedy in Medininkai, expressed confidence that executing justice in Medininkai case should be...
IN DISCUSSIONS ON THE NEW EU FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE LITHUANIAN VICE-MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PRESENTED LITHUANIA‘S PRIORITIES Added 2011-07-29 During an Informal Meeting of Ministers for European Affairs that took place on 28-29 July in Sopot Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Egidijus Meilūnas presented  Lithuania‘s priorities in preparation of the new European...