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LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND HIS FRENCH COUNTERPART SIGN AGREEMENT ON LITHUANIAN PREWAR EMBASSY BUILDING Added 2001-12-17 On December 13, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis and his French counterpart Hubert Vedrine signed an agreement according to which France will acquire the Lithuanian prewar Embassy building currently occupied by Russian representatives....
ADDRESS BY LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANTANAS VALIONIS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HEADS OF LITHUANIAN MISSIONS ABROAD (Vilnius, 17 December, 2001) Added 2001-12-17 Lithuanian diplomacy objectives in 2002 Honourable ambassadors, Dear colleagues, Honourable guests, This year’s traditional convention of ambassadors marks the end of an unordinary year. Three months ago, the brutal events of September 11...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITED BRUSSELS Added 2001-12-17 On December 14, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis continuing his visit in Brussels met US Permanent Representative at NATO Nicholas Burns and Assistant of NATO Secretary General Günther Altenburg. The Lithuanian Foreign Minister...
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HEADS OF LITHUANIAN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS IS TO TAKE PLACE Added 2001-12-14 On December 17-22, the annual meeting of the heads of Lithuanian diplomatic missions will be held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On December 17, the Ambassadors are to meet Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus. After a lunch the first...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONSIDERS THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE EU NOT TO BE A RACE Added 2001-12-13 According to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis we must focus on the quality of the EU accession negotiations and not on the calculation of the closed chapters or statistical “race” with the other candidates. “The responsibility for...
SUPPORT FOR THE NATO MEMBERSHIP INCREASED IN LITHUANIA Added 2001-12-12 According to the latest public opinion survey conducted by the "Vilmorus" pollster, 64.6 percent of Lithuanian population support the country's bid for the NATO membership. During the analogous poll performed by the same agency in June, this...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PARTICIPATED IN THE PARTNERSHIP COMMISSION SITTING Added 2001-12-12 On December 10, a sitting of the Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and US Partnership Commission took place in Washington D.C. Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis headed the Lithuanian delegation. During the sitting Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis...
FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS MOLDOVA AND UKRAINE Added 2001-12-08 On December 5-6 and 7-8, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis as the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe visited Moldova and Ukraine, respectively. Minister Valionis met President of the Republic...
REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR GIEDRIUS ČEKUOLIS, LITHUANIAN DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AT THE MEETING OF THE EAPC FOREIGN MINISTERS (Brussels, 7 December 2001) Added 2001-12-07 CURRENT SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE EUROATLANTIC AREAMr. Secretary General, Excellencies,Ladies and Gentlemen,As Secretary General Lord Robertson pointed out in his letter addressed to all of us on the eve of today's meeting, the NACC met ten years...
STATEMENT OF THE VILNIUS GROUP Added 2001-12-07 Brussels, December 07 2001 We, the Foreign Ministers of the Vilnius Group countries - Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, fully associate ourselves with the North Atlantic Council's...