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THE SUMMIT OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION OF THE FRANCOPHONIE HELD IN CANADA Added 2008-10-16 On 15-19 October in Quebec, Canada, the Lithuanian delegation led by Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aurimas Taurantas, is taking part in the Ministerial Conference and the Summit of the International Organisation of the...
LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR PRESENTED CREDENTIALS TO THE PRESIDENT OF BULGARIA Added 2008-10-16 On 16 October, Lithuanian ambassador Arūnas Vinčiūnas presented credentials to the President of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov. During the meeting ambassador A.Vinčiūnas stressed, that relations between Lithuania and Bulgaria, which date back to the...
SPEECH BY ŽYGIMANTAS PAVILIONIS, UNDERSECRETARY OF THE LITHUANIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AT THE CONFERENCE “MOLDOVA: MOVING AHEAD”. WILTON PARK, UK, OCTOBER 16-18, 2008 Added 2008-10-16 1st DAY, 1st SESSION “Moldova: the way forward” Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen Let me start by saying how glad I am that Wilton Park has accepted our proposal to organize this conference dedicated to Moldova and agreed to host us in...
A NEW LITHUANIAN HONORARY CONSUL IN UKRAINE STARTS HIS DUTIES Added 2008-10-14 Viktor Popov started his duties as a new Lithuanian Honorary Consul in Ukraine. On 8 October, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine he obtained his . V.Popov is appointed to exercise consular functions in the consular district of Kherson...
SAAKASHVILI SAVED GEORGIA FROM COUP, FORMER PUTIN AIDE SAYS (EUobserver.com 14.10.2008) Added 2008-10-14 EUOBSERVER / TBILISI – The Georgian president had no other option than to attack South Ossetia in order to save his country from a Russian coup, Andrei Illarionov, former advisor to Vladimir Putin has said in an interview with EUobserver on the...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: RUSSIA HAS NOT YET IMPLEMENTED ITS OBLIGATIONS CONCERNING WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM GEORGIA Added 2008-10-13 On 13 October, during European Union’s General Affairs and External Relations Council meeting in Luxembourg, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Petras Vaitiekūnas and heads of diplomacy of other EU Member States discussed situation in...
EU FOREIGN MINISTERS DECIDED TO TEMPORARILY SUSPEND TRAVEL BAN ON SOME BELARUSIAN OFFICIALS Added 2008-10-13 On 13 October, during European Union’s General Affairs and External Relations Council meeting in Luxembourg, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Petras Vaitiekūnas and his counterparts from other EU Member States discussed how the EU would...
“BETWEEN POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY. THE HOLY SEE AND THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA”. PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF LITHUANIA Added 2008-10-10 On 10 October, a book entitled “Between Politics and Diplomacy. Holy See and the Republic of Lithuania“was presented in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. In his book Algimantas Kasparavičius analyzes political and diplomatic relations...
LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS RECEIVED THE NEW AMBASSADOR OF SWEDEN Added 2008-10-10 On 10 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas met with Ulrika Cronenberg-Mossberg, the new Ambassador of Sweden to Lithuania. During the meeting, bilateral relations between Lithuania and Sweden and their perspectives...
TACKLING THE ILLICIT SMALL ARMS TRADE: THE CHAIRMAN SPEAKS ("Arms Control Today", October 2008) Added 2008-10-10 When I was nominated in December 2007 as the chair-designate of the third biennial meeting of states (BMS3), my team and I immediately focused on the task of ensuring a successful outcome. This, of course, is the duty of any meeting chair; but in...