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PM, Pope Francis discuss aid to families, boosting birth rate
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Pope Francis on Friday discussed emigration challenges, humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, social compassion to the impoverished and affected, assistance to families and birth rate promotion issues, the government said. […]
Foreign affairs
PM to meet with Pope Francis
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is scheduled to meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian ambassador in Minsk handed note over Belarusian border violation
Lithuania’s ambassador in Minsk, Andrius Pulokas, on Monday was handed a diplomatic note over a violation of Belarus’ border. […]
European Union
Violence in Spain will burden Madrid-Catalonia dialogue – Lithuanian president
Sunday’s violence in Spain will burden the dialogue between Madrid and supporters of Catalonia‘s independence, says Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
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PM readying to visit Vatican
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is readying for this week’s visit to Vatican to meet with Pope Francis. […]
European Union
Comparison of Catalonian, Baltic independence ideas wrong – Foreign Minister Linkevičius
Comparing the Catalonian aspirations to break free from Spain with the Baltic states’ movement to gain independence from the Soviet Union would be incorrect, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
Foreign affairs
PM calls off Georgia visit after SocDems’ move to exit coalition
After the Social Democratic Party’s council on Saturday decided to leave the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis decided to call off his plans to visit Georgia. […]
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Foreign Ministry says to have no data of Lithuanian citizens injured in Mexico quake
Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it had no information about Lithuanian citizens affected by the powerful earthquake in Mexico. […]
Foreign affairs
President going to Poland next year
President Dalia Grybauskaite intends to go to Poland next year to attend festivities to mark 100-year anniversary of the country’s statehood, inviting her Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, to attend the 100-year statehood anniversary in Vilnius on Feb. 16, the presidential press service said. […]
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Kremlin unable to curb its hatred to West – President tells leaders at UN
Russia’s leadership is unable to curb its hatred towards the Western world, President Dalia Grybauskaite said in her address to world leaders at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania finds Russia’s proposal for UN force in eastern Ukraine unacceptable
Russia’s proposal to deploy an UN-mandated force on the dividing line between Kiev’s forces and Moscow-backed separatists is not acceptable, Nerijus Aleksiejunas, the Lithuanian president’s foreign policy advisor, said on Tuesday. […]
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Lithuania joins Trump’s initiative to reform UN
Lithuania has joined a political declaration on reforming the United Nations, drafted on US President Donald Trump’s initiative, the Lithuanian president’s office said on Tuesday. […]
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Lithuanian EC member: EC starts drafting unified food quality assessment methodology
The European Commission has ordered the development of a unified food quality assessment methodology in the European Union (EU) to prevent different food standards in the community, said Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Lithuanian commissioner in charge of health and food safety. […]
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Lithuania seeks EP support to Marshall Plan for Ukraine
Lithuanian politicians who have proposed a plan of European Union’s (EU) financial aid to Ukraine aim to secure support at the European Parliament (EU). […]
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Lithuania’s president off to New York for UN summit
President Dalia Grybauskaite on Sunday left for New York to attend a session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which will bring together more than 100 head of states and governments to discuss international issues. […]
Foreign affairs
Russia aiming to intimidate Europe in energy – Lithuania’s ambassador in Washington
Russia is using energy projects, such as the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus and the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, to intimidate Europe, Lithuania’s Ambassador to the United States, Rolandas Krisciunas, said at a conference of the executive council, ministers and diplomats of the Community of Democracies last Friday. […]
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Germany plans to lend Lithuania its 1918 independence act for 5 years
Germany plans to hand the original copy of Lithuania’s 1918 Act of Independence recently found in Berlin’s diplomatic archive over to Lithuania for five years, diplomatic sources have confirmed to BNS. […]