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CHILDREN OF GEORGIA WAR REFUGEES WILL GET SUPPORT FROM A CHARITY CAMPAIGN IN LITHUANIA Added 2010-04-20 A charity campaign of Lithuania’s support to the children of Georgia war refugees was presented on 20 April at Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The culmination of the initiative will be a benefit concert on 1 May, the eve of Mother’s...
LITHUANIAN SOUTH AFRICA (VilNews, South African Issue, April 2010) Added 2010-04-19 It is considered that around 90% of the approximately 80,000 Jews living in South Africa are of Lithuanian descent (the so-called Litvaks), which thus constitutes the largest pocket of Litvaks in the world! You are hereby invited to learn more...
LITHUANIAN AND NORWEGIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSSED BILATERAL AND REGIONAL COOPERATION AT A TELECONFERENCE Added 2010-04-19 Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis and Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre, who could not come to Lithuania due to the cancelled flights in Europe, discussed issues of bilateral relations, cooperation in...
LITHUANIA GETS OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP ADVICE FROM FINLAND AND GREECE Added 2010-04-16 On 16 April in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis received representatives from the Finnish and Greek Chairmanships of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the upcoming Irish...
LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER HIGHLIGHTED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE REGIONAL COOPERATION AMONG THE NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Added 2010-04-16 During the Baltic Sea NGO Forum in Vilnius on 16 April, Lithuania’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė highlighted the importance of cooperation among public institutions in the region. According to the...
LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER PRESENTED PRIORITIES OF THE COUNTRY’S EUROPEAN POLICY TO THE EU AMBASSADORS Added 2010-04-14 On 14 April in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis presented key priorities of Lithuania’s European policy to the European Union ambassadors, who reside in Lithuania. The meeting with foreign diplomats was held at...
LITHUANIAN AND ROMANIAN MFA CONSULTATIONS WERE HELD IN VILNIUS Added 2010-04-14 On 14 April in Vilnius, Political Director of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Eitvydas Bajarūnas and General Director for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania Ştefan Tinca discussed issues of the European...
LITHUANIA’S HONORARY CONSUL IN ALBANIA STARTS HIS ACTIVITIES Added 2010-04-14 On 13 April in Tirana, Lithuania’s Ambassador to Albania Artūras Žurauskas presented the consular patent to Lithuania’s first Honorary Consul in Albania Kastriot Haskaj. According to the Ambassador, the appointment of the honorary consul will...
ISSUES OF COOPERATION BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND KAZAKHSTAN WERE DISCUSSED IN ASTANA Added 2010-04-14 On 12-13 April in Astana, Political Director of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Eitvydas Bajarūnas took part in political consultations between Lithuania and Kazakhstan, during which the director and officials of the Ministry of...
BEYOND HUMAN TRAGEDIES (The Jerusalem Post, 13 April 2010) Added 2010-04-13 When it comes to mass murder, ‘tragedy’ doesn’t even begin to describe it. By Vytautas Landsbergis