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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...
OSCE CHAIRPERSON WELCOMES KAZAKHSTAN PRESIDENT’S DECISION NOT TO HOLD REFERENDUM ON EXTENDING PRESIDENTIAL TERM Added 2011-01-31 VILNIUS, 31 January 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed today's decision by the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, not to hold a referendum on extending his term of office....
AT THE EU’S GENERAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CALLS FOR THE EU’S FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY LINKS Added 2011-01-31 At the European Union’s General Affairs Council meeting on 31 January in Brussels, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis stressed that it was necessary to allot the needed public resources for financing the construction...
IN VILNIUS, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER MEETS WITH RUSSIA’S AMBASSADOR TO NATO Added 2011-01-31 On 31 January in Vilnius, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius received Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to NATO Dmitry Rogozin, who came to Vilnius to present his book on family roots that are related...
OSCE CHAIRPERSON TO VISIT MOSCOW, DISCUSS PROTRACTED CONFLICTS, TRANSNATIONAL THREATS, MEDIA FREEDOM Added 2011-01-31 VILNIUS, 31 January 2011 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis will visit Moscow from 1 to 3 February to discuss with the Russian authorities  the follow-up to the Astana OSCE Summit and the...