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LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES TO VICTIMS OF VOLGOGRAD BLASTS Added 2013-12-30 On 30 December, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius sent a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov expressing his condolences to the victims of the terrorist attacks, which took...
LITHUANIA TO CHAIR SECURITY COUNCIL COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE AND CAR SANCTIONS COMMITTEE Added 2013-12-24 Starting on 1 January 2014 Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, will chair the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (established under UNSCR 1373), the Working Group...
LITHUANIAN PRESIDENCY ACHIEVEMENTS PRESENTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Added 2013-12-20 Lithuanian Deputy Foreign Minister Rolandas Kriščiūnas on December 18 in Brussels presented to the Committee on Development (DEVE) of the European Parliament the achievements of the Lithuanian Presidency, which include agreements reached on...
LITHUANIA HANDED OVER THE EU PRESIDENCY TO GREEK COUNTERPARTS Added 2013-12-18 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius on 18 December in Brussels handing over the Presidency of the Council of the EU to Greek Deputy Minister for European Affairs Dimitris Kourkoulas stressed that approval of the Multiannual...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH NATO AMBASSADORS IN BRUSSELS Added 2013-12-12 On 12 December at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with NATO Ambassadors to discuss results of Lithuania’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
STATEMENT OF FOREIGN MINISTER OF LITHUANIA LINAS LINKEVIČIUS ON TONIGHT’S EVENTS IN KIEV Added 2013-12-11 Tonight’s events on the Independence Square in Kiev have shown the conscious choice that the Ukrainian authorities appear to have taken against the European path, the choice which is opposite to what the President of Ukraine has been saying...
LITHUANIAN OFFICERS AWARDED UN MEDALS IN CYPRUS Added 2013-12-05 On 28th November 2013, officers of the United Nation Peace Keeping Mission in Cyprus (UNFICYP) were awarded UN medals for service under the blue flag. Among them, were two Lithuanian officers from the Public Security Service (PSS) under the...
L.LINKEVIČIUS WTO NEGOTIATIONS AGENDA MUST HAVE BUSINESS NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF CITIZENS AT ITS CORE Added 2013-12-04 During the discussion on the Doha Development Agenda that began at the Ninth WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius stressed that the Trade Facilitation Agreement would benefit all...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SUMMONED UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR OVER SITUATION IN KYIV Added 2013-12-02 On 2 December, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned the Ambassador of Ukraine to Lithuania Valery Zhovtenko. The Foreign Ministry expressed its concerns about the violent dispersal of peaceful demonstrators on Independence Square...
STRATEGIC EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS SIGNED IN VILNIUS Added 2013-11-29 The EU's association agreements with Georgia and Moldova were initialled and other important cooperation agreements between the European Union and Eastern Partnership countries were signed at the Vilnius Summit. Taking part in summit are EU...