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Foreign affairs

President Grybauskaitė elected chairwoman of the Council of Women World Leaders

President Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected the Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders at its meeting in New York. The Council, established in 1996, is a network of influential women leaders of the world. The Lithuanian president became its member in 2009, the presidential press service said. […]

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Society

EHU welcomes nearly 400 new students

Three hundred ninety-two new students will begin their studies at the European Humanities University (EHU) this autumn. Their numbers include 329 undergraduate and 63 graduate students. […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuania expresses support for Iraq’s new government

On 19 September, at the meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the Lithuanian permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, expressed Lithuania’s support for the new government of Iraq and underlined that it had to remain inclusive and represent the interests of all the groups and components of the society, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]

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Foreign affairs

At UN Security Council Lithuania urges not to politicise investigation into MH17 crash

At 19 September meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė urged to respect the memory of the victims of the catastrophe of MH17 and condemned any attempts to influence or interfere with the independent investigation carried out by the Dutch Safety Board, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]

Rabbi Herschel Gluck. Photo courtesy of the Lithuanian Embassy in London
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Holocaust in Lithuania Commemorated at the Embassy in London

On 18th September 2014, representatives of the British, Jewish and Lithuanian communities in the United Kingdom as well as Members of Parliament and foreign diplomats residing in London gathered at the Embassy to commemorate the Holocaust in Lithuania. […]