ADDRESS BY THE VICE-MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF LITHUANIA ASTA SKAISGIRYTĖ LIAUŠKIENĖ TO THE 16th SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL. Geneva, 2 March 2011
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Mr. President, Madam High Commissioner,Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my honour to address the Human Rights Council today. I would like to begin by welcoming the United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted yesterday on suspension of the...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE PLANNED BELARUSIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IS NOT COMPLETED
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Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses concern about the purposefully misleading information that the BELTA News Agency circulated on 2 March in Belarus, suggesting that Lithuania did not object to the Environmental Impact Assessment...
OSCE CHAIRPERSON MEETS CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICAL PARTY REPRESENTATIVES IN ALMATY, URGES KAZAKHSTAN TO MAINTAIN OPEN DIALOGUE ON REFORMS
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ALMATY, 1 March 2011 - The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, emphasized the role of civil society and the importance of broad political representation for Kazakhstan's reform progress following meetings...
FOREIGN MINISTER OPENS THE LITHUANIAN EMBASSY IN ASTANA
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On 28 February in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis officially opened the Lithuanian Embassy that moved from Almaty. After Astana was declared as the capital of Kazakhstan in 1997, the...
OSCE CHAIRPERSON DISCUSSES ASTANA SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP, REFORM PROGRESS IN KAZAKHSTAN
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ASTANA, 28 February 2010 - The OSCE Chairperson, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, emphasized the importance of taking forward the momentum gained at the Astana Summit and sustaining Kazakhstan’s reform progress following a...
LITHUANIA INTERESTED IN PRODUCTIVE COOPERATION WITH KAZAKHSTAN WITHIN OSCE TROIKA - AUDRONIUS AŽUBALIS (Kazinform, 28 February 2011)
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ASTANA. February 28. KAZINFORM President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has received OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis in the Akorda today.
The sides discussed the issues of cooperation between...
OSCE CHAIRPERSON TO VISIT KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN
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VILNIUS, 25 February 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, will travel to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan next week to discuss OSCE work with both countries and the Lithuanian Chairmanship’s...
EU-UKRAINE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WOULD BE AN IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENT FOR KYIV, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER SAYS
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The signing and implementation of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine would be an important achievement for Ukrainians, because it would open up a broad EU market for Ukrainian goods and would standardize trade and...
MEETING AT THE MFA DISCUSSES WAYS TO INCREASE TOURIST FLOW TO LITHUANIA
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On 24 February, a meeting of representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the State Department of Tourism and associated structures of the tourism sector took place...
SPEECH BY THE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE OF THE OSCE, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AUDRONIUS AŽUBALIS AT THE OPENING OF AN EXHIBITION “THE LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE PERCEPTION: AN OLD LANGUAGE OF MODERN COMMUNICATION”. Vienna, Austria, 24 February 2011
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Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends,
We have invited you here to an exhibition that bears a rather ambitious title: Understanding Lithuanian. Please don’t worry – we don’t mean for you to take a class in Lithuanian.
However, to...