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THE OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY WILL FOCUS ON COOPERATION WITH PARTNERS Added 2010-10-07 At the fall meetings of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly on 8 October in Palermo (Italy), Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Ambassador Renatas Norkus will deliver a...
M.K.OGINSKIS: DIPLOMAT, POLITICIAN, A SYMBOL OF PATRIOTISM Added 2010-10-07 Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis says that a famous diplomat of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a politician, the last treasurer of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and one of the leaders of the uprising in 1794,...
LITHUANIA WARNS AGAINST SPECIAL ZONES IN DISARMAMENT TALKS (AFP, 7 October 2010) Added 2010-10-07 VILNIUS, October 7, 2010 (AFP) - Ex-Soviet Baltic EU states cannot be treated as a special zone in possible disarmament talks aimed at reviving a Cold War-era treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe, a senior Lithuanian official said Thursday.
LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATED HIS SWEDISH COUNTERPART Added 2010-10-07 On 6 October, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis had a telephone conversation with Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt and congratulated him on the re-appointment.
RUSSIA THANKS LITHUANIA FOR SENDING AID TO FIGHT FOREST FIRES Added 2010-10-06 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov thanked Lithuania for helping Russia to fight forest fires.
LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES LATVIA’S NEW AMBASSADOR Added 2010-10-05 On 5 October in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis received Latvia’s new Ambassador to Lithuania Mārtiņš Virsis. During the meeting, the Foreign Minister and the Ambassador discussed relations...
POSSIBILITIES FOR PROMOTING FILM INDUSTRY GROWTH IN LITHUANIA WERE DISCUSSED AT THE MFA Added 2010-10-05 On 4 October, senior officials of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs held meetings with Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office Sharon Pinkenson, who acquainted them with the activities of the office in attracting...
MEDIA FREEDOM AND SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS ON THE PRIORITY LIST FOR LITHUANIA’S UPCOMING OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP Added 2010-10-05 According to Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Renatas Norkus, Lithuania will encourage the governments of the OSCE participating states to take more pro-active measures...
LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER AND AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENTARIANS DISCUSSED WAYS TO STRENGTHEN BILATERAL RELATIONS Added 2010-10-04 On 4 October in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis met with Chairman of Azerbaijani Parliament’s (Milli Majlis) International and Inter-parliamentary Relations Committee Samad Seyidov and Chairman of...
CONSULTATIONS OF LITHUANIAN AND AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTRIES WERE HELD IN VIENNA Added 2010-10-04 During political consultations on 4 October in Vienna, political directors of Lithuanian and Austrian foreign ministries Eitvydas Bajarūnas and Stefan Lehne exchanged opinions on key issues of the European Union’s foreign policy and...