Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
On 17 December, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis conferred the award of honor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Lithuania's Diplomacy Star – on Dr. Lara Lempertienė, Head of the Judaica Research Centre at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the dissemination of research on the history and cultural heritage of Lithuanian Jews abroad, and to the commemoration of the Vilna Gaon’s 300th birth anniversary and the 700th anniversary of the history of Jews in Lithuania.
On 20 October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with the Sakharov Prize winner, Ukrainian film director and human rights activist Oleg Sentsov, who is visiting Lithuania.
September 23, the anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto in 1943, is commemorated as the National Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews.
On 8 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis took part in a procession dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust and in the Holocaust memorial ceremony in Alytus. Lithuania's Foreign Minister stressed that the Holocaust was the greatest tragedy in the 20th-century Europe and its scale in Lithuania was appalling.
On 14 June, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Mantas Adomėnas met with the U.S. Department of State’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Cherrie Daniels and Paul Packer, Chairman of the United States Commission For the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.
On 4 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis visited the unique historical museum of Lithuanian Jewish shtetlakh that is under construction in Šeduva.
On 26 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis started his visit to Paris and visited the Shoah Memorial.
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