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LITHUANIA WILL INCREASE SUPPORT FOR THE CIVIL SOCIETY IN BELARUS Added 2011-02-02 During the international donors’ conference “Solidarity with Belarus” on 2 February in Warsaw, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius said that Lithuania would increase support for the Belarusian civil...
OSCE CHAIRPERSON IN MOSCOW DISCUSSES 2011 PRIORITIES, SAYS CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF RUSSIA ESSENTIAL TO ORGANIZATION Added 2011-02-02 MOSCOW, 2 February 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis met with Russian high-level politicians and officials in Moscow today to outline the priorities of Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship and to...
RUSSIA SUPPORTS GOALS OF LITHUANIA'S OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP – LAVROV (BNS, 2 February 2011) Added 2011-02-02 MOSCOW, Feb 2, BNS - Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Moscow supports goals of Vilnius as the Chairmanship of he Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
WITHOUT RUSSIA, SOLUTION OF PROTRACTED CONFLICTS WOULDN'T MOVE A MILLIMETER - LITHUANIAN FORMIN (BNS, 2 February 2011) Added 2011-02-02 VILNIUS, Feb 2, BNS - Without Russia's contribution, the solution of protracted conflicts would not move a millimeter, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Azubalis, who is on a visit in Moscow as the chairperson-in-office of the...
PRIORITY HIGH, EXPECTATIONS LOW: LITHUANIAN CHAIRMANSHIP TACKLES PROTRACTED CONFLICTS IN THE OSCE (Eurasia Daily Monitor, 2 February 2011, Volume No.8, Issue No.23) Added 2011-02-02 Lithuanian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Audronius Azubalis, outlined the chairmanship’s priorities in the Permanent Council’s September 13 and subsequent meetings, as well as statements and introductory visits by his...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER INVITED OPPOSITION LEADER OF BURMA/MYANMAR TO THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES EVENT IN VILNIUS Added 2011-02-01 Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis sent a letter to opposition leader of Burma/Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and invited her to the Community of Democracies Ministerial Meeting which will be held in...
MFA HOSTS A MEETING TO DISCUSS WAYS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF UN RESOLUTION INITIATED BY LITHUANIA Added 2011-02-01 On 1 February, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted  a discussion on the implementation of the resolution on environmental effects related to waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea, adopted by the United Nations’...
CONSIDERABLE FINANCIAL RESOURCES SHOULD BE ALLOCATED TO EUROPEAN NEIGHNBOURHOOD POLICY Added 2011-02-01 Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Danish and Finnish foreign ministers state that the European Union‘s external financial instruments in the new Financial Perspective for 2014-2020 should correspond to the EU‘s foreign policy priorities....
OSCE CHAIRPERSON, EU HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MEET IN BRUSSELS Added 2011-01-31 The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, and the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton met on 31 January 2010 in Brussels to discuss issues in the...
IN BRUSSELS, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER EMPHASIZED THE NECESSITY TO STRENGTHEN SUPPORT FOR THE BELARUSIAN CIVIL SOCIETY Added 2011-01-31 On 31 January in Brussels, the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) decided to impose travel restrictions to the EU and an asset freeze against Belarusian governmental officials responsible for the ongoing repressions against the...