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...
IN STOCKHOLM LITHUANIAN AMBASSADORS DISCUSS COUNTRY’S PRIORITIES REGARDING THE BALTIC SEA REGION
Added 2008-10-09
On 9 October, a regional meeting of the heads of Lithuanian diplomatic representations in the states of the Baltic Sea region starts in Stockholm.
LITHUANIAN OFFICIAL STARTS HIS DUTIES AS A SENIOR POLITICAL ADVISER OF THE EUROPEAN UNION’S MONITORING MISSION IN GEORGIA
Added 2008-10-09
On 9 October, Lithuanian official Darius Jurgelevičius starts his work as a senior political adviser of the European Union’s Monitoring Mission in Georgia.
LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR PRESENTED CREDENTIALS TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Added 2008-10-09
On 8 October, Lithuania‘s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe Gediminas Šerkšnys presented credentials to Terry Davis, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe which has its seat in Strasbourg.
VIEW FROM THE UN BALTS WEIGH IN AT GENERAL DEBATE ("The Baltic Times", 2-8 October 2008, Vol.10, page 14)
Added 2008-10-08
The three Baltic presidents delivered a powerful punch during the U.N. General Assembly debate at U.N. headquarters in New York City, and The Baltic Times was there for the knockout. Although 192 member states were invited to participate in...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY EMPHASIZES THAT DISPUTES OF COMMERCIAL COMPANIES ARE ARBITRATED BY COURTS AND NOT BY POLITICIANS
Added 2008-10-06
On 6 October, the Embassy of Latvia to Lithuania received a reply to the note of Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the ruling of Vilnius District Court pertaining to the Latvian company airBaltic and Riga’s airport on the basis of the...
LITHUANIA EXTENDS CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF THE PERISHED TURKISH SOLDIERS
Added 2008-10-06
Lithuania strongly condemns the terrorist attack in South-Eastern Turkey оn 3 October, when 15 Turkish soldiers were killed. Lithuania extends condolences and sympathy to the families of the perished Turkish soldiers. Lithuania supports the...