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ON THE OCCASION OF CELEBRATION OF THE MILLENNIUM OF LITHUANIA’S NAME, FOREIGN MINISTRY WILL USE SPECIAL BLANKS FOR DOCUMENTS Added 2008-09-09 Celebrating the millennium of Lithuania’s name, all the documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Lithuanian diplomatic missions– notes and letters - that are sent abroad – will be bear a sign of the millennium of Lithuania’s name....
LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR PRESENTED CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY Added 2008-09-09 On 8 September, Lithuanian Ambassador to international organisations in Vienna Renatas Norkus presented credentials to Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei. The representative of Lithuania thanked...
ECONOMIC COOPERATION BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IS PROMOTED Added 2008-09-09 On 8 September in Vilnius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas met with Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nikola Špirić, who is on official visit to Lithuania. During the meeting, head of Lithuanian diplomacy...
LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: IT IS TIME TO MAKE ESSENTIAL DECISIONS REGARDING RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION’S EASTERN NEIGHBOURS Added 2008-09-08 On 6 September at the Informal Meeting of EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Gymnich) in Avignon, France, Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas emphasised the necessity to implement energy projects and to heed more of the EU’s attention to...
LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS TO STRENGTHEN ITS COOPERATION WITH THE U.S.A. Added 2008-09-05 On 5 September, a two-day Informal Meeting of EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Gymnich) started in Avignon, France. On the first day of the meeting, heads of diplomacy of the EU Member States discussed the EU’s relations with the U.S.A. and the...
CONFERENCE ‘SĄJŪDIS AND SOLIDARNOŚĆ: BEGINNING OF THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP’ WAS HELD IN WARSAW Added 2008-09-05 On 5 September, the conference ‘Sąjūdis and Solidarność: Beginning of the Strategic Partnership’ dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the establishment of relations between the Sąjūdis and Solidarność movements was organised at the Royal Castle in...
EXHIBITION ON LITHUANIA’S DIPLOMACY OF THE INTERWAR PERIOD OPENS IN KAUNAS Added 2008-09-05 On 5 September, an exhibition ‘White Gloves: Official and Unofficial Diplomacy in Kaunas in 1918-1940’ was opened at the historical Office of the President in Kaunas. At the opening of the exhibition, guests were welcomed by Undersecretary of the...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AWARDS FORMER POLISH PRESIDENT IN WARSAW Added 2008-09-05  On 4 September at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Warsaw, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas awarded former President of the Republic of Poland, founder of the Solidarność (Reform Movement of Poland) and...
FOREIGN DIPLOMATS WILL TRAVEL THE ROADS OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA Added 2008-09-04 On 5 September, heads of foreign representations residing in Lithuania together with their spouses and children will travel the roads of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Belarus. The history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (13th-18th c) is one of...
L.TALAT-KELPŠA. EVENTS IN GEORGIA: REAL AND ASSUMED TRUTH (Delfi.lt, 4 September 2008) Added 2008-09-04 Events of the past weeks in Georgia have had wide international repercussions. Lithuania is no exception, as the events in that small country in the southern Caucasus have reminded many people here of the events of 13 January: the same tanks, the...