Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president congratulates British queen on great-grandchild’s birth
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday congratulated Queen Elizabeth II on the birth of her third great-grandchild. […]
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Lithuanian defmin to open NATO Week in Ukraine
Lithuania’s Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis will pay a visit to Kiev on Monday and attend the opening of NATO Week in Ukraine. […]
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Ukraine to launch train from Riga via Vilnius, Minsk to Kiev, LG says talks ongoing
As Ukraine plans to soon launch a Kiev-Minsk-Vilnius-Riga passenger train, Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) says negotiations on the matter are still underway. […]
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Lithuania’s leaders don’t plan to meet with Dalai Lama, but some MPs do
Members of the Lithuanian parliament’s Provisional Group for Solidarity with Tibetans intend to meet with the Dalai Lama during his visit to Lithuania in June, but the country’s top officials do not plan to do so. […]
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Lithuanian PM inviting minister, ambassadors to discuss Eastern policy
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is inviting the foreign minister and several ambassadors to discuss the country’s relations with Russia and other Eastern countries. […]
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Norway’s crown prince to visit Lithuania
Crown Prince of Norway Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit will pay an official visit to Lithuania next week, accompanied by the country’s defense minister and a high-ranking business delegation, the Office of the President of Lithuania announced. […]
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Ukrainian vice premier visiting Lithuania
Ukrainian Vice Premier Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze is visiting Lithuania. […]
European Union
Seimas pauses in ratification of EU-Canada trade deal
Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday decided to take a pause in the adoption of a resolution for ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada. […]
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PM pledges to preserve shared Lithuanian-Israeli cultural heritage
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Thursday visited the Jewish school of Sholom Alecheim for events of 70-year anniversary of Israel‘s independence. […]
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Ratification of EU-Canada trade deal makes headway in Seimas
After 10 months of discussions in parliamentary committees, ratifiacion of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada is making headway in the Lithuanian parliament. […]
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Dalai Lama to visit Lithuania in June
The Dalai Lama is expected to come to Lithuania in June. […]
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Lithuania congratulates Israel on 70th independence anniversary
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė sent her best wishes for continued peace, unity and prosperity to Israel as she congratulated the Jewish state on the 70th anniversary of its independence. […]
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‘No special easing’ of requirements for football fans traveling to Russia via Lithuania
Lithuanian officials say that there will be “no special easing” of requirements for football fans who will travel via Lithuania to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad for 2018 FIFA World Cup matches. […]
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Lithuanian, Russian officers discuss preparations for 2018 FIFA World Cup
Lithuanian and Russian officers gathered in the border city of Pagegiai on Wednesday to discuss handling of bigger flows of travelers to the Russian Kaliningrad region for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. […]
European Union
Seimas takes another break in approval of EU-Canada free trade deal
Lithuania’s parliament is again stalling in the ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union (EU) and Canada after the ruling Farmers and Greens Union requested yet another break. The issue has been postponed until Thursday, at the earliest. […]
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Lithuanian, Russian officials begin to coordinate preparations for FIFA World Cup
Lithuanian and Russian officials are starting to coordinate efforts to manage increased migration flows to Kaliningrad, which will host some of the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches this June. […]
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Kazakhstan’s SCAT Airlines to launch direct Astana-Vilnius service
SCAT Airlines is set to launch in late May direct flights between Kazakhstan‘s capital of Astana and Lithuania’s capital of Vilnius. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania supports actions against Syrian regime – formin
The Syrian regime crossed a number of red lines, therefore, Lithuania supports the actions taken by the United States, the United Kingdom and France, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
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Lithuanian PM hands over humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis handed over a batch of humanitarian aid as his visited the war-ravaged town of Avdiivka in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk on Wednesday. […]