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Seimas panel chairman says Lithuania must prepare for Russian provocations
Lithuania should be prepared for provocations from Russia, says Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. […]
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Lithuanian parliament speaker: Russia’s statements on ethnic minorities in Baltics signal danger
The Russian government’s statements about the allegedly bad situation of Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic states are alarming, says Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. She also thinks that some local politicians exaggerate problems of Lithuania’s ethnic minorities to make them appear worse than they actually are. […]
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Lithuanian MEP: Russia has intensified harassment of Baltic states
The Russian government, involved in the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine, has intensified the harassment of the Baltic states, says Lithuanian member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis. […]
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Lithuania condemns killing of British aid worker captured in Syria
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the killing of a humanitarian aid worker from the United Kingdom, David Haines, stating that the crimes cannot undermine the efforts against terrorism. […]
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Lithuanian president hands credentials to new ambassador to Poland
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė presented letters of credence to the new ambassador to Poland, Šarūnas Adomavičius, on Monday. […]
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Lithuania urges Russia to free abducted Estonian officer
The Foreign Ministry of Lithuania urges the Russian Federation to release immediately Eston Kohver, Estonian officer detained in the territory of Estonia on 5 September, and provide him with the possibility to safely return to his motherland, the ministry said in a statement. […]
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Lithuanian Foreign Ministry does not recognise “elections” in Crimea
Responding to reports about “elections” held in Ukraine‘s Autonomous Republic of Crimea on 14 September, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry underlined that Lithuania supported Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and considered organising such “elections” in Crimea as yet another illegal action of the occupation authorities. […]
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OECD chief expresses support for Lithuanian membership
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius met with secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Angel Gurria, in Riga and heard his support to Lithuania’s membership in the organization. […]
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President: Lithuania interested in boosting food exports to Israel
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Vilnius on Thursday and emphasized Lithuania’s interest of boosting exports of food products to the country. […]
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Estonian Chamber of Commerce opens season 2014
Members and friends of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce were invited this week to the opening of Season 2014 and a seminar, where the new additional service for businesses, Mediation Service, was presented. […]
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PM says Russia is trying to intimidate Lithuanians who refused to serve in Soviet army
The Russian request for legal assistance in the investigation of the case when Lithuanians refused to serve in the Soviet army in the early 1990s is an attempt to intimidate them, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
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Lithuanian president: Memory of 9/11 victims obliges to fight terrorism
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the memory of the people killed during the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 puts us under the obligation to do all we can to prevent terrorism. […]
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Israel’s foreign minister in Vilnius: Nuclear proliferation in Middle East a “horror film”
Israel‘s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who paid a working visit to Lithuania, said the nuclear programme of Iran was a threat to the whole world and compared the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East to a horror film. […]
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Lithuanian defence minister says EU should send humanitarian aid and military equipment to Ukraine
The European Union should provide Ukraine with both humanitarian aid and military equipment, Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said in an informal meeting of EU defence ministers in Milan this week. […]
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New ambassador of Spain presents letters of credence to Lithuanian president
President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from Spain‘s Ambassador to Lithuania, Emilio Fernandez-Castano y Diaz-Caneja, the presidential press service informs. […]
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Legal expert: Russia indicates that it questions Lithuania’s independence
Attempts by Russia‘s law enforcement agencies to re-open criminal prosecution against Lithuanian nationals who avoided military service in the Soviet army in 1990-1991 has no legal basis, says international law expert Erika Leonaitė. […]
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Lithuanian-Polish Parliamentary Assembly to meet in October
The meeting of the Lithuanian-Polish Parliamentary Assembly should take place in Warsaw in October, says Gediminas Kirkilas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary Committee of European Affairs. […]
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Lithuanian foreign minister: Prosecution of Soviet army deserters is absurd as Russia has denied continuity with USSR
Russia‘s attempts to prosecute persons who refused to serve in the Soviet army is absurd, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]
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Lithuanian president receives letters of credence from new Dutch ambassador
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Lithuania, Gijsbert Hendrik Christiaan van der Lingen, the presidential press service informs. […]