*alt_site_homepage_image*
en
Clear
THE PROJECT OF THE FREIGHT TRAIN VIKING IS TO BE PRESENTED IN ISTANBUL Added 2012-03-27 On 28 March in Istanbul, Lithuanian Railways, in cooperation with the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Transport and Communications, organises an international conference “The train Viking. Intermodal solutions,...
LITHUANIAN REPRESENTATIONS ABROAD COMMEMORATE THE 1949 DEPORTATION VICTIMS Added 2012-03-26 On 24-25 March, Lithuanian Embassies in Dublin and Sofia, and the Consulate General in New York organised commemorations of the victims of mass deportations from Lithuania to Siberia in 1949.
EUROPEAN UNION MUST ADEQUATELY FINANCE ITS PROJECTS ALSO AFTER 2013, LITHUANIA FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER SAYS Added 2012-03-26 On 26 March at the meeting of EU Ministers for European Affairs in Brussels, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Egidijus Meilūnas stressed that further adequate financing of the closure of the Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) was one of...
THE EU MINISTERS TAKE A UNANIMOUS DECISION ON BELARUS Added 2012-03-23 On 23 March in Brussels, the EU foreign ministers made a unanimous decision to reinforce restrictive measures against the Belarusian regime. Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis underlined that these measures should affect the...
THE EU COMMON AGRICULTURAL AND COHESION POLICIES REMAIN BASIC TOOLS FOR THE PROMOTION OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER SAYS Added 2012-03-23 On 22 March at the high-level conference on the EU multiannual financial framework in Brussels, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Egidijus Meilūnas underlined that the agricultural and cohesion policies were essential tools to help...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER INFORMED THE REPRESENTATIVES OF JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS IN THE US ABOUT THE PROJECTS HELD IN LITHUANIA TO MEMORIZE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST Added 2012-03-21 On 20 March in New York, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis informed the representatives of Jewish organizations in the US on projects held in Lithuania in 2011, in order to memorize victims of the Holocaust, preserve the memory of the...
LITHUANIA‘S COMPLAINT AGAINST BELARUSSIAN NPP PROJECT HEARD IN GENEVA Added 2012-03-21 The Implementation Committee of the UN Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) heard into Lithuania’s claim that Belarus failed to meet convention requirements while building a new nuclear power...
THE EU MUST EMPLOY A SOLID EXTERNAL ENERGY POLICY, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER SAYS Added 2012-03-20 Having high dependence of imported energy resources, the European Union needs to employ a solid and strong external energy policy, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Egidijus Meilūnas said.On 20 March, he opened a round table discussion...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VOICES CONDOLENCES OVER THE TRAGIC SHOOTING INCIDENT IN TOULOUSE Added 2012-03-20 On 19 March, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis voiced condolences over the tragic shootings of four people (three of them children) at a Jewish school in Toulouse.
ISSUES OF COOPERATION WITH GHOR PROVINCE DISCUSSED AT THE LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY Added 2012-03-19 On 19 March in Vilnius, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius and Political Director of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vytautas Leškevičius held a meeting with Governor of Afghanistan’s Ghor...