A JOINT MEETING BETWEEN THE CBSS COMMITTEE OF SENIOR OFFICIALS AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION WAS HELD IN BRUSSELS
Added 2010-02-01
On 26 January, a meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) was held in Brussels. It was chaired by Ambassador Neris Germanas, Head of the Secretariat for .
The participants of the meeting approved...
'AN AMBASSADOR OF THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE' (Haaretz, 28 January 2010)
Added 2010-01-28
When Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever died last week at the age of 96, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner released an official death notice on behalf of the French government. The Lithuanian parliament conducted a special session and stood up...
LITHUANIA’S FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN
Added 2010-01-27
On 28 January, Lithuania’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius will take part in the international London conference on Afghanistan. The support of international community to the consolidation of security, welfare and democracy...
MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE IS ASSIGNED AS LITHUANIA’S ACTING MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Added 2010-01-27
On 26 January 2010, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė issued a decree, assigning Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė as Lithuania’s Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs until the new Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign...
INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY WILL BE MARKED IN LITHUANIA
Added 2010-01-25
On 27 January, school communities in various Lithuanian cities and districts will mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day: at 21 schools lessons will be given to explain the pupils about the significance of this day, as well as film...
IN BRUSSELS, EU FOREIGN MINISTERS PAID CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION TO THE ISSUES OF AFGHANISTAN
Added 2010-01-25
On 25 January, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas attended the European Union’s General Affairs Council and Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. The EU foreign ministers discussed the programme of the Spanish EU Presidency,...
LITHUANIAN DIPLOMAT APPOINTED AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN MOLDOVA
Added 2010-01-25
Lithuanian diplomat Birutė Abraitienė is appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Moldova.
The Government of Lithuania delegated B.Abraitienė to this position.
LITHUANIA LOSES A PROMINENT LITVAK POET
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Founder of the Lithuanian Jewish State Museum, internationally renowned Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, 96, passed away in Tel Aviv on 20 January. This deeply spiritual man had survived one of the most tragic events in the history of our country.
TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS EXPERT PRESENTS HIS BOOK ON THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GEORGIA
Added 2010-01-22
The book “A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West” by Ronald Asmus was presented on 22 January in Vilnius. The author is the Executive Director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center and responsible for...
SISTER CITY CINEMA: THE LITHUANIAN FILM FESTIVAL BRINGS VISIONS OF VILNIUS TO CHICAGO (The Chicago Weekly, 22 January 2010)
Added 2010-01-22
Americans have long been loath to learn foreign languages and equally unenthusiastic about subtitled films—an unfortunate trend, but by no means a hopeless one. Launched in 1960 by Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicago’s uncommonly active Sister Cities...