LITHUANIA WELCOMES THE EFFORTS TO COORDINATE THE EUROPEAN UNION EXTERNAL POLICIES BETTER
Added 2007-11-20
On 20 November, during the meetings of the European Union Development Ministers in Brussels, Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laimonas Talat-Kelpša welcomed the efforts of the countries to coordinate external policies...
LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONGRATULATED THE NEWLY APPOINTED MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF POLAND
Added 2007-11-19
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas congratulated the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski and expressed belief that the strategic partnership between Lithuania and Poland would be further...
LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE EUROPEAN UNION ASSISTS GEORGIA
Added 2007-11-19
On 19 November, during the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) in Brussels Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas and Heads of the EU countries’ diplomacy discussed various issues of international policy,...
BILATERAL POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND CHINA ARE HELD IN BEIJING
Added 2007-11-19
On 19 November, in Beijing bilateral political consultations were opened between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and China. A delegation headed by Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oskaras Jusys met with...
THE BALTIC STATES SHOULD SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE
Added 2007-11-16
On 16 November, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas and the newly appointed Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maris Riekstinis, who came to Vilnius on his working visit, discussed important issues of bilateral relations,...
WE OUGHT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE CREATION OF STRONG EUROPEAN UNION, WHICH WOULD ACT AS A HARMONIOUS COMMUNITY OF STATES
Added 2007-11-16
On 16 November, at the conference “Political and Cultural Transformations of European States Identity: the Role of the European Union”, Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laimonas Talat-Kelpša indicated in his welcoming...
KNOWLEDGEABLY CURIOUS (Lithuania in the World, 2007 No5, p. 14-17)
Added 2007-11-16
John A. Cloud, the American ambassador to Lithuania, speaks about his life here and the past and present of Lithuania-US relations
For a representative of what political analysts like to call a “hegemonic power”, John A. Cloud cuts a remarkably...
A UNIQUE LANGUAGE: THE OLDEST LIVING INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FINDS ITS PLACE IN THE MODERN WORLD (Lithuania in the World, 2007 No5, p.18-21)
Added 2007-11-16
Due to their similar political situations and their historical development in the 20th century, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are often treated as sisters, and referred to as the Baltic States. The name Baltic is even applied to the entire region....
THE ISSUES OF COOPERATION IN THE REGION OF LITHUANIAN-BELARUSIAN BORDER ARE BEING DISCUSSED IN DRUSKININKAI
Added 2007-11-15
On 15 November, in Druskininkai during the Lithuanian-Belarusian forum “Druskininkai and Hrodna. The Search for Mutually Beneficial Ways of Development”, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laimonas Talat-Kelpša indicated that such...
FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURS (2007 Issue 9, p. 51-53)
Added 2007-11-14
We met with the H.E. Ambassador of Ukraine to Lithuania, Mr Borys Klimchuk at the Ukrainian Embassy in Vilnius where we discussed the many issues involving the joint historical, economical, cultural and political ties between our two countries....