THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DISCUSSED IN GERMANY
Added 2007-02-02
On 1 February during consultations in Germany Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Žygimantas Pavilionis discussed the future of the EU Constitutional Treaty and the Berlin Declaration marking the 50th anniversary of the Treaty...
CLOSER COOPERATION BETWEEN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL AND THE UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION IS PURSUED
Added 2007-02-01
On 31 January at the UN Security Council meeting Dalius Čekuolis, the President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations presented the role of the ECOSOC in restoration of peace and...
LITHUANIA AND POLAND STRENGTHEN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
Added 2007-01-31
On 30 January Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas met with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Fotyga who came on her first official visit to Lithuania and discussed Lithuanian-Polish cooperation projects of major...
LITHUANIA STRIVES TO GAIN MAXIMUM SUPPORT TO ITS CANDIDACY FOR THE POST OF CHAIRMAN OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE
Added 2007-01-29
Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laimonas Talat-Kelpša met Belarusian Ambassador to Lithuania Vladimir Drazhin and asked to support Lithuania’s candidacy for the post of chairman of the Organization for Security and...
DISCUSSIONS ON THE EUROPEAN UNION’S CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY IN MADRID
Added 2007-01-29
On 26 January Lithuania together with other seventeen states that had already ratified the European Union’s Constitutional Treaty discussed how to reach a turning point in negotiations on the future of the European Constitution.
NATO SUCCESS IN AFGHANISTAN DEPENDS ON ALLIES’ ABILITIES TO CONCENTRATE IN THE MOST DIFFICULT PLACES OF THE OPERATION
Added 2007-01-29
On 26 January at the informal meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas continued discussions on NATO’s operations in Afghanistan and Kosovo.
ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE TO LITHUANIAN CARRIERS WERE DISCUSSED IN THE FOREIGN MINISTRY
Added 2007-01-26
On 25 January Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas discussed with the heads of the Lithuanian National Road Carriers’ Association ‘Linava’ and carriers’ representatives Latvian Government’s decision of October 2006 that...
FREEDOM HAS SPECIAL MEANING FOR ESSAY CONTEST WINNER (The Plainfield Sun, January 26, 2007)
Added 2007-01-26
Gerda Kudautaite, a 14-year-old eighth-grader at Timber Ridge Middle School, knows the value of freedom. Her great-grandparents, grandparents and mother and father lived much of their lives under communism in Lithuania.
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TREATY OF ROME WILL BE COMMEMORATED IN LITHUANIA
Added 2007-01-25
Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the Seimas, Chancery of the Government, Representation of the European Commission in Lithuania, Embassy of Germany currently presiding over the EU and other institutions organize a series of...
FOREIGN MINISTRY ISSUES A CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AND DEMOCRACY PROMOTION PROJECTS
Added 2007-01-25
Lithuanian Foreign Ministry invites to submit proposals for development cooperation and democracy promotion projects.