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Foreign affairs
Linkevičius discusses bilateral and regional cooperation with Latvian, Estonian and Slovakian foreign ministers
On 16 January, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Foreign Minister of Latvia, and Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Foreign Minister of Estonia, who are taking part in the Snow Meeting. […]
Foreign affairs
Foreign Minister Linkevičius opens Vilnius Forum of Intellectuals
The traditional informal Snow Meeting and the Vilnius Forum of Intellectuals began on 15 January. At the opening of the Forum, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius stressed the importance of dialogue with the Russian society. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliament calls for release of Ukrainians held by Russia
On Wednesday, the Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Lithuanian Parliament adopted a resolution calling for immediate release of Nadiia Savchenko, Ukrainian military air force pilot, and other Ukrainian citizens illegally held against their will in the Russian Federation, the press service of the Seimas announced. […]
Society
Lithuanians’ trust in e-government services growing
A study commissioned by the Information Society Development Committee under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania on Lithuanian e-government services revealed that electronic declarations and electronic applications were the most popular form of electronic communication between Lithuanian government agencies and citizens in 2014, the ministry said. […]
Baltic ministers sign Declaration on Energy Security of Supply
On January 14, in Riga, the ministers responsible for energy policy in the three Baltic states signed the Declaration on Energy Security of Supply of the Baltic States, the Ministry of Energy reports. […]
Global LT
Foreign affairs
Mikhail Khodorkovsky among guest speakers at forum in Lithuania
Snow Meeting, a traditional informal discussion club, organised by the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania since 2008, will be held on 15-16 January in Trakai and Vilnius, the ministry said in a press release. […]
Newsweek: Putin makes his first move in race to control the Arctic
In November, the Russian K-550 nuclear ballistic submarine Alexander Nevsky, submerged in the Barents Sea between Russia and the North Pole, successfully launched a missile that travelled its prescribed course to Kamchatka in Russia’s far east. The Alexander Nevsky thus joins two other Russian nuclear submarines, which have, in the course of the autumn, conducted successful ballistic missile tests. […]
European Union
Russia pans Lithuania’s counter-propaganda initiative in EU
A Russian official has criticized suggestions by several European Union nations, including Lithuania, to form a consistent pan-EU effort to counter Russia’s propaganda campaign. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s deputy foreign minister discusses fight against anti-Semitism with Jewish organisations
On 9 January, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius visited Brussels, where he met with Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the European Jewish Association, and Henri Gutman, president of the Jewish Laic Community Centre, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
Sports
NBA star Ilgauskas officially loses Lithuanian citizenship
On Monday, retired NBA player Žydrūnas Ilgauskas officially lost his Lithuanian citizenship. The decree was signed by Lithuanian Minister of Interior Saulius Skvernelis. […]
Defence
Economy
Klaipėdos Nafta reloaded 640,000 thousand tonnes of oil products in December
State company Klaipėdos Nafta during December 2014 reloaded 640 thousand tonnes of oil products into its storage tanks, greater by 68.4 percent than during December 2013, when 380 thousand tonnes were reloaded. During December 2014 more oil products from the main client of the company Orlen Lietuva as well as from refineries of the Republic of Belarus were reloaded, compared to transhipment during December 2013, also during December 2014 additional heavy oil products from refineries of Russian Federation were reloaded, Klaipėdos Nafta announced. […]
Defence
US Senator John McCain: We will work to ensure “the future of the Baltic countries”
US Republican Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says he will do all he can not only to ensure Washington’s support for Ukraine, but also to avert danger to the Baltic states. […]
Bloomberg: Can Lithuanian minister save Ukraine’s economy?
Lithuanian asset manager Aivaras Abromavičius was appointed Ukraine‘s economy minister late last year to help save the country from bankruptcy. Is he up for the job, asks Bloomberg columnist Leonid Bershidsky. […]
Economy
Finance minister says Lithuania needs euro
Lithuania has become the eurozone’s 19th member, but only half of Lithuanians are in favour of the new currency. That will change, Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius told DW, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
Foreign affairs
Minister Linkevičius: Lithuania and UK share many interests in EU
On 8 January in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Philip Hammond. The ministers discussed the European agenda, the implementation of NATO’s decisions, strengthening of security in the region, situation in Ukraine, the Eastern Partnership and relations with Russia. […]
Society
Lithuanians express solidarity with victims of attack in Paris
After three armed men killed a dozen people at the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, people around Europe and the world have gathered to spontaneous rallies to express solidarity under the banner #JeSuisCharlie (“I Am Charlie”) and show that attacks on free speech will not be taken lightly. A rally of solidarity was also organized in Vilnius near the Embassy of France (Švarco street 1) Thursday at noon. […]