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IN BERLIN, BALTIC-GERMAN MFA CONSULTATIONS FOCUS ON EU'S KEY FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES Added 2011-06-01 On May 31-June 1 in Berlin, Political Director of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Eitvydas Bajarūnas took part in the annual consultations of political directors from Baltic and German foreign ministries, where EU’s key foreign...
LITHUANIA AND FRANCE AS STRATEGIC PARTNERS AGREED ON SPECIFIC COOPERATION MEASURES Added 2011-06-01 On 31 May in Paris, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of France Alain Juppé signed the strategic partnership action plan, which provides for specific implementation...
OSCE CHAIRPERSON-IN-OFFICE TO VISIT UZBEKISTAN AND TURKMENISTAN Added 2011-05-31 VILNIUS, 30 May 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, will visit Uzbekistan on 1 June and Turkmenistan on 2 June, to discuss their co-operation with the OSCE and the support the OSCE could...
REGARDING VALIONIS’S REQUEST TO RESIGN AS AMBASSADOR Added 2011-05-31 On 31 May, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis received Valionis’s request to resign as Ambassador of Lithuania to Latvia. Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičias has conveyed the...
OSCE SEMINAR HIGHLIGHTS GOOD PRACTICES IN BORDER DEMARCATION Added 2011-05-31 VILNIUS, 31 May 2011 – Border officials, diplomats, scientists, cartographers, engineers and other experts today began discussing good practices in delimitation and demarcation of borders at an OSCE Chairmanship seminar in Vilnius.
OSCE HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF REAPPOINTED Added 2011-05-30 VILNIUS, 30 May 2011 – Foreign ministers from the 56 OSCE participating States today unanimously agreed to reappoint the chief of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič of Slovenia, for a term...
IDENTIFYING PROTECTION GAPS, EXPLORING WAYS TO ASSIST REFUGEES, DISPLACED AND STATELESS PERSONS FOCUS OF OSCE MEETING Added 2011-05-27 VIENNA, 27 May 2011 – Participants in an OSCE meeting on internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, returnees and stateless persons, discussed today recent examples of forced population movements, and how to resolve the plight of people...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER INVITES THE CHINESE TO DISCOVER LITHUANIA Added 2011-05-27 On 27 May at the Tourism Business Seminar that was organized by the Lithuanian Embassy in Beijing, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis invited Chinese people to use tourism opportunities in Lithuania.The Embassy invited...
OSCE WELCOMES RELEASE OF EYNULLA FATULLAYEV Added 2011-05-27 VILNIUS, 26 May 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the Decree by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev...
SPEECH BY LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUDRONIUS AŽUBALIS AT THE SEMINAR, DEDICATED TO THE TOURISM POTENTIAL OF LITHUANIA. Beijing, China, 27 May 2011 Added 2011-05-27 Distinguished representatives of Chinese and Lithuanian business community, Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome all of you who gathered here at the Lithuanian Tourism Business Seminar in order to get to know Lithuania and opportunities it opens for...