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FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES LETTER FROM EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS COMMISSIONER Added 2002-07-24 On 23 July, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis received EU External Relations Commissioner Christopher Patten’s letter which emphasises that any decision on the Kaliningrad Region will also have to be approved by the candidate...
LITHUANIA JOINS TREATY ON OPEN SKIES Added 2002-07-23 On 22 July, the Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) at the OSCE approved Lithuania’s application to join the Open Skies Treaty. According to Director of Multilateral Relations Department of the MFA Rytis Paulauskas, on joining the...
COMMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Added 2002-07-23 /Unofficial translation/ In a comment to the news agency BNS on French President Jacques Chirac’s statement concerning introduction of transit visas for inhabitants of the Kaliningrad Region, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
VILNIUS-HOSTED SESSION OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE’S COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS RECEIVES ESPECIAL EVALUATION Added 2002-07-17 On July 15 in Strasbourg, the Committee of Ministers (CM) of the Council of Europe (CoE) thanked Lithuania for organising the 110th session of the CM in Vilnius. The approved Report emphasises that the session of Vilnius was an undoubted...
INTERVENTION BY MR. RYTIS MARTIKONIS,REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LITHUANIAN GOVERNMENT,AT THE PLENARY SESSION OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION Added 2002-07-15 July 11, 2002, BrusselsMr. President, Dear colleagues,In less than two years the strategic situation of Lithuania will be changed profoundly: in several months Lithuania will become a member of the EU and NATO thus arriving at a qualitatively new...
AGREEMENT SIGNED IN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON ESTABLISHING DANISH FOUNDATION TO ASSIST LITHUANIA’S EU-PREPARATION EFFORTS Added 2002-07-01 On June 26, in the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a meeting of the Joint Committee under the Danish Government FEU-Programme in support of Lithuania’s preparation for EU membership took place. Head of the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign...
ACHIEVEMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS DISCUSSED OVER MINISTER VALIONIS’ MEETING WITH EU DIPLOMATS Added 2002-07-01 During the Spanish Presidency of the EU, Lithuania has started addressing the most sensitive issues in the EU entry talks, while the conclusion of those and other issues will fall on the six-month term of Danish presidency, Minister of Foreign...
HAVING EVALUATED FIRST SEMESTER’S PROGRESS, LITHUANIA’S DELEGATION FOR EU ACCESSION DISCUSSES DECISION ON LAND SALE TO FOREIGNERS Added 2002-06-28 According to Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis, although Lithuania is one of the most successful candidate countries in the EU accession negotiations, the importance of the forthcoming semester’s tasks shows that Lithuanian negotiators will have...
STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANTANAS VALIONIS AT THE PLENARY SESSION DISCUSSION OF THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA Added 2002-06-27 Development of Lithuania’s Negotiations for the EU Accession and Key Tasks for the Second Semester of 2002 27 June 2002, Vilnius Honourable Members of the Seimas,Dear Colleagues,Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me that it becomes a...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS SPAIN Added 2002-06-25 The Chief of Lithuanian Diplomacy Antanas Valionis visited Seville (Spain), where a Summit of the European Union took place on 21-22 June. On 20-21 June, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister participated in preparatory meetings with high officials of...