USA OFFICIALS THANK LITHUANIA FOR EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP OF GHOR PROVINCIAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAM IN AFGHANISTAN
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Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas is visiting the USA on 8-14 February as a member of a delegation headed by President Valdas Adamkus.
EUROPEAN ENERGY POLICY TOPS THE LIST OF PREPARATIONS BEFORE THE EU SUMMIT
Added 2007-02-13
During a traditional meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers’ of Nordic and Baltic states (NB6) on 12 February in Brussels, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Žygimantas Pavilionis highlighted the need to end the isolation of natural...
TOURISM PROFILE OF LITHUANIA (TÜRSAB, No.284 / 2007 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, p.20-28)
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Lithuania is the largest country among the three Baltic states and with its 3 million 500 thousand population it has been a member of the EU since 2004. Lithuania has a parliamentary democracy and won its independence from the Soviet Union in...
LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR PRESENTED CREDENTIALS TO THE PRESIDENT OF CROATIA
Added 2007-02-12
Lithuanian ambassador Giedrius Puodžiūnas presented credentials to the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić on 9 February. During the meeting with the President of the Republic of Croatia, ambassador G.Puodžiūnas, who...
LITHUANIA ENHANCES COOPERATION WITH MOROCCO
Added 2007-02-08
On 7 February State Secretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Algimantas Rimkūnas met Director General of Bilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Morocco Ambassador Youssef Amrani, who arrived to Vilnius.
TOPICAL ISSUES OF REGIONAL COOPERATION WERE DISCUSSED IN HELSINKI
Added 2007-02-07
On 6-7 February annual meeting of political directors of Nordic and Baltic States, so called Nordic and Baltic Eight (NB8), took place in Helsinki. At the meeting Lithuania was represented by Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign...
THE U.S. PROPOSALS FOR THE U.S. VISA WAIVER PROGRAM WERE DISCUSSED IN PRAGUE
Added 2007-02-07
On 6 February Director of Consular Department of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vaidotas Verba took part in the meeting of representatives of the new EU Members that formed the “Coalition for Visa Equality” in Prague and discussed the...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSED THE ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND ENERGY IN TALLINN
Added 2007-02-06
On 6 February Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas took part in the Baltic-Adriatic-Atlantic Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Ministers of Defence in Tallinn and discussed energy issues with Estonian...
LITHUANIA HAS ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
Added 2007-02-06
On 5 February in New York Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the UN Dalius Čekuolis and Permanent Representative to the UN of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Margaret Hughes Ferrari signed on behalf of their governments a bilateral protocol...
NEW HEAD OF LITHUANIA’S SPECIAL MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN APPOINTED
Added 2007-02-05
On 2 February Birutė Abraitienė, a diplomat of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, left to Ghor province of Afghanistan to head Lithuanian Special Mission in Chagcharan.