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LITHUANIA SUPPORTS THE EU’s AIMS TO STRENGTHEN RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBOURS IN THE EAST Added 2008-12-04 On 3 December, the European Commission presented a communiqué on the Eastern Partnership development with six neighbouring countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and depending on when it meets the requirements - Belarus. The...
NATO WILL ASSIST GEORGIA AND UKRAINE’S INTEGRATION INTO THE ALLIANCE Added 2008-12-03 On 3 December in Brussels during the North Atlantic Council, NATO Foreign Ministers discussed the necessity to continue strengthening civilian and military assistance to the Government of Afghanistan and to continue reinforcing the NATO-led...
LITHUANIA SIGNS THE CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS Added 2008-12-03 On 3 December in Oslo, during a special conference dedicated to the signing of the Convention, Lithuania’s representative, Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway Alfonsas Eidintas signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions. This Convention prohibits...
THE THREAT OF SEA-DUMPED CHEMICAL WEAPONS DISCUSSED AT THE INITIATIVE OF LITHUANIA IN THE HAGUE Added 2008-12-03 On 3 December in The Hague, an informal meeting on sea-dumped chemical weapons was organised at the initiative of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
NATO COUNTRIES AGREED TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING THE GOALS OF GEORGIA AND UKRAINE’s MEMBERSHIP IN THE ALLIANCE Added 2008-12-03 On 2 December in Brussels, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Žygimantas Pavilionis took part in the North Atlantic Council meeting. At this meeting NATO Foreign Ministers and their counterparts from invitees - Albania and Croatia -...
STATE SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY: IT IS NECESSARY TO ACTIVELY TACKLE THE ISSUES OF ENERGY ISOLATION OF THE BALTIC STATES AND TRANSPORT NETWORKS Added 2008-12-02 On 2 December, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Deividas Matulionis took part in an annual Summit of the Baltic Development Forum in Copenhagen. In his speech, State Secretary of the Ministry dedicated most...
ADDRESS BY MR. DEIVIDAS MATULIONIS, STATE SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AT THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY SUMMIT OF THE BALTIC DEVELOPMENT FORUM. Copenhagen, 2 December, 2008 Added 2008-12-02 Honorable President of the Baltic Development Forum, Distinguished guests and participants, Time passes quickly and today we are meeting already at the 10th Summit and again in Copenhagen, where the first Summit was held in 1999. I would like...
LITHUANIA FRETS AS BRUSSELS PREPARES TO SAP POWER (Financial Times, 2 December 2008) Added 2008-12-02 What one god gives, another takes away. Such is the dry humour with which Lithuanians greeted the imminent closure of the Ignalina nuclear power station, a featureless hulk rising from the snowy badlands of the frontier with Belarus and Latvia.
DIPLOMATS LOOK AT WAYS OF INCREASING EXPORT, ATTRACTING FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND PROMOTING INNOVATIONS Added 2008-12-01 On 1 December in Hotel Ratonda, Vilnius, a three-day long annual convention of Lithuanian diplomats responsible for economy abroad, attachés for commercial affairs and representatives from Lithuanian Development Agency (LDA) was opened. The main...
ENCOUNTERS AT THE CLUB DIPLOMATIQUE: S.E.M EDWARDAS BORISOVAS (Cote Magazine, Septembe-October 2008, p.47-48) Added 2008-11-30 S.E.M Edwardas Borisovas, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN and other IO in Geneva, has accepted to answer to few questions about his native country and about his role as an ambassador