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THE LOZORAITIS FAMILY ARCHIVES WERE RENDERED TO LITHUANIA Added 2008-03-13 On 13 March at the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the archives of the Lithuanian diplomat and public figure Stasys Lozoraitis junior were rendered to the Lithuanian Central State Archives. The archive in Rome of the respectable...
LITHUANIA ENCOURAGES TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN MORE ACTIVELY Added 2008-03-13 On 12 March at the 7th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other international organisations at Geneva, Ambassador Eduardas Borisovas gave a speech on the issue of violence...
MYSTERY OF THE THREE-HANDED SAINT (The Baltic Times, March 12, 2008) Added 2008-03-12 VILNIUS  - One of the must-see stops on any tour of Vilnius is the cathedral, for there is more to this grandiose display of Neo-Classicism than meets the eye. Besides the crypt, which snakes beneath the building to reveal a history that...
LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: GEORGIAN ISSUES HAVE TO BE A PRIORITY ON THE EUROPEAN UNION AGENDA Added 2008-03-10 On 10 March in Brussels, during the EU General Affairs and External Relations Council meeting (GAERC), to which the EU Foreign Ministers gathered, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas paid most attention to the relations...
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: THE MEMBERSHIP ACTION PLAN WOULD CERTAINLY ENCOURAGE GEORGIA AND UKRAINE TO CONTINUE IMPLEMENTING REFORMS Added 2008-03-06 On 6 March in Brussels, at the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas discussed the most important topics of the upcoming NATO Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Government in Bucharest: the...
LITHUANIA FIRMLY SUPPORTS THE OPEN DOOR POLICY PRINCIPE OF THE NATO ALLIANCE Added 2008-03-06 On 5 March in Berlin, at the conference ‘Ahead of the NATO Summit: Prospects and Problems for NATO Enlargement to the East’, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Žygimantas Pavilionis expressed strong support for the...
DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ASIA OPENS UP NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR LITHUANIAN INSTITUTIONS AND PEOPLE Added 2008-03-06 On 5 March, at the information seminar ‘ASEM Dialogue – Opportunities for Lithuania’, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, representatives from Lithuanian state institutions, academia and non-governmental organisations...
IMPORTANT ISSUES OF THE LITHUANIAN STATE BORDER WERE DISCUSSED AT THE MEETING, INITIATED BY THE LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Added 2008-03-05 On 5 March, at the initiative of the head of Lithuanian diplomacy Petras Vaitiekūnas a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during which the situation at the Lithuanian State border was discussed.
LITHUANIA INVITES THE UNITED NATIONS COUNTRIES TO TAKE PART IN THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Added 2008-03-05 On 5 March in Geneva, during 7th session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Oskaras Jusys indicated that after successfully establishing the Human Rights Council, it...
THE LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR PRESENTED CREDENTIALS TO THE PRESIDENT OF SLOVENIA Added 2008-03-05 On 4 March, Lithuanian Ambassador Rimutis Klevečka presented credentials to the President of the Republic of Slovenia Danilo Türk. After the official ceremony, the head of the State of Slovenia and Ambassador R.Klevečka exchanged opinions on the...