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President accepts credentials from US new ambassador
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday received letters of credence from the United States new Ambassador Anne Hall. […]
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Lithuania pays last respects to former Israeli President Peres
Lithuania on Friday is paying last respects to late Israeli President Shimon Peres. […]
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US new ambassador arrives in Lithuania
The United States’ new Ambassador to Lithuania Anne Hall has arrived in Vilnius, the US Embassy said on Thursday. […]
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Lithuanian-Polish ties miserably worse – Adamkus
The relations between Lithuania and Poland are enduring a miserable chill, says Lithuania’s former president Valdas Adamkus, expressing hope that the ties between the two neighboring states would no longer be burdened by disputes about the spelling of personal and location names. […]
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Grybauskaitė conveys condolences over Peres’ passing
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday conveyed her heartfelt condolences to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and to all the people of the country on the passing of former president, Nobel Prize winner, Shimon Peres. […]
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Peres was person of outstanding intelligence, true Litvak
Israel’s former president Shimon Peres was a person of outstanding intelligence who always emphasized his links to Lithuania, says Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the Jewish Community in Lithuania. […]
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Opposition criticizes Foreign Minister over ties with Cuba
The aspiration of Lithuanian diplomats to develop closer ties with the Communist Cuba has drawn criticism from the opposition – former foreign minister Audronius Ažubalis has accused the Foreign Ministry of dual standards and lack of honesty in statements about democratic values. […]
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25th Anniversary Celebration of Lithuania’s Diplomatic Relations
On 26 Augustus 1991 the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algirdas Saudargas signed a document establishing diplomatic relations between a free Lithuania and Iceland. Soon thereafter, a number of countries followed and on 17 September, the UN General Assembly admitted Lithuania as a member. […]
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Latvian experts to present documents proving Lithuania was Soviet Union’s donor
Latvian experts are expected to next week present an analysis of archival financial documents, proving that Lithuania was a donor of the Soviet Union rather than its dependent. […]
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UN official says Lithuania won’t avoid immigration amid climate change
European governments must prepare to deal with new flows of migrants who will leave their countries because of climate change in the search for drinking water and food, a high-ranking United Nations official, on a visit to Lithuania, said in an interview with BNS. […]
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‘Three stages’ of Lithuanian-Polish relationship
The Lithuanian-Polish relations are quite normal and do not need to be normalized, says Vilnius University lecturer Marijuš Antanovič. Instead, he adds, they need a renewal, because in their current situation they are best described as ‘Cold Peace’. […]
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20 more Syrian refugees relocated to Lithuania under EU programme
Another 20 refugees from Syria arrived in Lithuania on Wednesday under the European Union (EU) resettlement programme. […]
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Lithuania will not seek to have Gorbachev appear in court in January 13 case
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, will not be part of the court proceedings in Lithuania which try to bring to justice individuals responsible for civilian deaths during the attempted coup of January 1991 in Vilnius. […]
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Baltic states ‘scared to death’ of Russia and Trump, Biden tells US voters
United States Vice-President Joe Biden says his recent visit to Latvia has given him the impression that the Baltic states are “scared to death” of Russia and fear the possibility of Donald Trump being elected as the next US president. […]
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Ado about hunting party ‘will not affect ties with Latvia’ – Lithuanian Seimas speaker
The commotion about Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė‘s dinner and hunting party with her Latvian counterpart should not affect the relations between the two neighbouring states, says Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė of the Labour Party. […]
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Children taken in Norway ‘may be brought to foster homes in Lithuania’
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, currently on a visit in Norway, says that children taken from Lithuanian migrant families in the country could be brought to foster homes in Lithuania. […]
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Lithuanians ‘more open’ about Holocaust – President Grybauskaitė
Lithuanians are starting to face the Holocaust more openly, which facilitates friendlier relations with Israel, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday after an event honouring Jewish victims World War Two massacre in Molėtai. […]