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. […]
On Thursday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed a decree recalling Lithuania’s Ambassador to NATO Kęstutis Jankauskas from the post. […]
Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė met with the newly appointed Irish Ambassador to Lithuania David Robert Noonan who rejoiced at the strong Lithuanian community in Ireland. […]
On 8 January in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will meet with Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Philip Hammond, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Lithuania is expressing solidarity with the families of those killed in injured in a terror attack in Paris. This outrageous attack reminds everyone that nobody is safe from such incidents, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has extended condolences to President of France Francois Hollande over the tragic attack against a Paris-based magazine in which dozens of people were killed. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Gijsbert Hendrik Christiaan Van Der Lingen, who starts his diplomatic service in Lithuania. […]
The United Nations Security Council might hold a meeting in January to discuss the Ukrainian conflict, Lithuanian diplomats say. […]
The Lithuanian parliament has ratified the intergovernmental agreement between Lithuania and Georgia on cooperation in fighting crime which was signed on 26 September 2013 in Vilnius. […]
Lithuania has reached the half-point in its two-year membership in the United Nations (UN) Security Council. Throughout 2014, the Lithuanian delegation mostly focused on the conflict in Ukraine, the rule of law, protection of civilians in armed conflicts, reinforcement of UN cooperation with the European Union (EU) and proper implementation of the Security Council’s decisions on sanctions, the Foreign Ministry has said. […]
Seven Ukrainian soldiers will arrive in Lithuania soon to undergo medical treatment, the Baltic country’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Wednesday. […]
The United Nations Security Council, in a 8-2 vote with five abstentions, rejected a resolution on Palestinian statehood which sets a deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian territories by 2017, CNN reports. […]
The Western powers are not forming an “anti-Russian” coalition and do not want this country to sink into chaos; however, they do wish relations with Moscow to be based on international agreements, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, US Secretary of State John Kerry and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were distinctly active in foreign policy this year. Linkevičius also noticed that the role of personalities has been giving way to coordinated work of institutions and international organisations. […]
The Russian state’s control of Russian media is well known and thus, it is not surprising that the Russian media had often been used as Moscow’s tool abroad. The prevalence of the Russian language and the sizeable Russian minorities in Estonia and Latvia facilitate receptiveness to Russian language media. […]
Lithuania’s national radio LRT gave the Person of the Year title to Lithuania’s ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas. He was awarded for his “diplomatic courage”. […]
The Lithuanian Parliament was proposed to establish a temporary inquiry commission and to investigate and assess charges against Lithuania for its purported participation in the secret CIA prison programme. Meanwhile Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office said on Monday it had sent a legal assistance request to the US Department of Justice. […]
Russia has consistently applied its own interpretation of history and dose of propaganda vis-à-vis the Baltic states. In the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the main source of tension in the propaganda sphere was the interpretation of Soviet history, in particular Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. […]
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