Rimantas Sinkevičius
Economy

Lithuanian transport minister: Rail Baltica should be a priority in allocating funds

On 28 October, representatives from the Baltic States signed a landmark agreement which will launch the project Rail Baltica and bring the Baltic region closer to Western Europe. […]

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Foreign affairs

Foreign affairs and security experts discussed 2014 NATO Summit decisions in Lithuania’s embassy in Stockholm

The Embassy of Lithuania in Stockholm – NATO Contact Point Embassy in Sweden – in cooperation with Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and British Embassy in Stockholm organized the working dinner in order to discuss the implications of 2014 NATO Summit decisions in Cardiff for the Baltic Sea Region, for Europe and for the Trans-Atlantic Relations. […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuania elected to Council of International Telecommunications Union

For the first time Lithuania has been elected to the Council of International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a specialized organization of the United Nations. […]

Foreign affairs

Lithuanian Foreign Ministry’s statement on elections in Ukraine

We congratulate the people of Ukraine for expressing their will in free and democratic early elections to Verkhovna Rada and for choosing European future. […]

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Defence

The Financial Times: NATO flexes muscles in Baltics amid Russian incursions

With tensions rising between Russia and Western countries over the military crisis in Ukraine, NATO is reporting a marked increase in Russian provocations in the skies over member states in Eastern Europe and the Baltics this year, The Financial Times reports. “You have to go a long way back to see anything like it,” according to one NATO official. […]