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FOREIGN AMBASSADORS RECEIVE “THE SCENT OF LITHUANIA” AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT Added 2010-12-24 Foreign ambassadors residing in Vilnius received “The Scent of Lithuania” perfume as a Christmas present.
LITHUANIA WELCOMES THE U.S. SENATE’S RATIFICATION OF THE U.S. AND RUSSIA STRATEGIC ARMS REDUCTION TREATY Added 2010-12-23 Lithuania welcomes the decision of the U.S. Senate to ratify the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which provides for substantial reductions in the U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals, and arms control mechanisms that would...
EU TO CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS ON EVALUATION OF CRIMES BY COMMUNIST REGIMES - LITHUANIAN FORMIN (BNS, 22 December 2010) Added 2010-12-22 VILNIUS, Dec 22, BNS - The European Union will continue discussions on Lithuania and other EU member states' wish to evaluate crimes by Nazi and communist regimes according to the same criteria, Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Audronius...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND MOLDOVA’S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSED POSSIBILITIES FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF TRANSNISTRIAN CONFLICT Added 2010-12-22 On 21 December in Vilnius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis met with Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Victor Osipov and discussed with him the priorities for Lithuania’s chairmanship of the...
LITHUANIA HELPS OPEN A NEW CHAPTER IN GEORGIAN OPHTHALMOLOGY Added 2010-12-21 Doctors of the Vilnius University Hospital Santariškių Klinikos (Santariškės Clinic) and Lithuanian diplomats initiated a project for early treatment of eye disease in Georgian infants. The project resulted on 21 December in the...
DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION PROJECTS CONTRIBUTE TO LITHUANIA’S POSITIVE IMAGE, FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS Added 2010-12-20 The state institutions and non-governmental organizations that implement Lithuania’s development cooperation projects that are an integral part of Lithuania’s foreign policy and diplomacy, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs...
LITHUANIA’S INCOMING OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP WAS DISCUSSED IN MOSCOW Added 2010-12-20 On 20 December in Moscow, Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Eitvydas Bajarūnas took part in political consultations on the issues of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
STATEMENT OF LITHUANIAN MFA REGARDING THE EVENTS IN MINSK ON 19 DECEMBER Added 2010-12-20 Lithuania closely follows the situation after the elections in the neighbouring state of Belarus, and regrets and expresses concern that on 19 December, the presidential election day, Belarusian authorities failed to grant the freedom of assembly...
EX-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES SEEK PENALTIES FOR DENIAL OF TOTALITARIAN ATROCITIES (DEUTSCHE WELLE, 18 December 2010) Added 2010-12-18 Denial of the Holocaust is illegal in Germany and many other countries. Now a group of European nations hope to criminalize the denial of crimes committed by communist totalitarian regimes.
EX-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES SEEK PENALTIES FOR DENIAL OF TOTALITARIAN ATROCITIES (DEUTSCHE WELLE, 18 DECEMBER 2010) Added 2010-12-18 Denial of the Holocaust is illegal in Germany and many other countries. Now a group of European nations hope to criminalize the denial of crimes committed by communist totalitarian regimes.