LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND AUSTRIA AFFECTED BY HEAVY FLOODS
Added 2002-08-22
On 21 August, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis sent letters of condolence to the Foreign Ministers of two countries, which suffered from high floods – the Czech Republic and Austria.
The letter to the head of the Czech diplomacy...
US CONGRESSMAN COMMENDS LITHUANIA ON ITS PROGRESS TOWARDS NATO INTEGRATION AND ENCOURAGES OPTIMISTIC EXPECTATIONS FOR PRAGUE SUMMIT
Added 2002-08-10
On 8 August, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis met with Chair of the European Subcommittee of International Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives Elton Gallegly, who had been visiting Vilnius.
At the meeting with the...
LITHUANIA POSTS STABLE SUPPORT FOR NATO MEMBERSHIP
Added 2002-08-07
Opinion polls of July proved that support for Lithuania's NATO membership remains unchanged. More than two out of three country's residents have a positive view of Lithuania's aspiration for NATO membership.
68.4 % of inhabitants approve of...
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...