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President Grybauskaitė meets with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin

President Grybauskaitė: Difficult challenges for Lithuania and Israel

October 19, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Israel on an official visit, met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. The meeting – the first between the Lithuanian president and the president of Israel, who was elected last year – focused on the most relevant issues relating to regional security and bilateral cooperation. The Israeli president, who emphasizes his Litvak roots, and Dalia Grybauskaitė also discussed measures to strengthen Israel’s ties with Lithuania, the presidential press service said. […]

President Grybauskaitė says her visit to Israel to give new momentum to relations

October 19, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is making an official visit to Israel on 19-21 October. She will be accompanied by the ministers of foreign affairs and economy as well as by Chair of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, Faina Kukliansky, the presidential press service said. […]

Lithuanian political scientist: Russia is winning war against US

October 16, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

The world is back in the Cold War situation, when governments’ official line stresses the need to talk, while in fact they are engaging in proxy war, according to Laurynas Jonvičius, political scientist at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University. […]

Lithuanian president says her Israeli visit will have ‘international significance’

October 15, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is planning a visit to Israel this week, says that the Lithuanian-Israeli relations have never been as good as they are now. She adds that the four-day visit might have international significance due to current tensions in Israeli-Palestinian relations. […]

Lithuanian PM discusses strategic cooperation with Poland’s Komorowski

October 14, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with former Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski to discuss the strategically important projects: power bridge LitPol Link, gas connection GIPL, and Poland‘s involvement in Rail Baltica. The prime minister congratulated the president on the award of Rokiškis honorary citizenship, thanking the president for his merits to Lithuania, the prime minister’s press service said. […]

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Hungarian Ambassador Zoltan Jancsi. Photo R.Dačkus

Hungarian ambassador presents letters of credence to Lithuanian president

October 14, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accepted letters of credence from Hungarian Ambassador Zoltan Jancsi. […]

Poland’s outgoing president made honorary citizen of Lithuanian town

October 14, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 13 October in Rokiškis (Lithuania), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius congratulated Poland‘s outgoing President Bronislaw Komorowski on becoming an honorary citizen of Rokiškis town and highlighted the importance of friendly ties between Lithuania and Poland, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]

Lithuanian delegation going to Italy to inspect handling of refugees

October 14, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

A delegation of the Lithuanian government is visiting Italy where it is looking into how the country, which has been one of the gateways of migrants from the Middle East and Africa coming to Europe, is handling the refugee flow. […]

Lithuania’s Linkevičius: Perpetrators of MH17 disaster must be brought to justice

October 14, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius believes that further criminal investigation into the tragic crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) will name concrete perpetrators of the crime and they will be brought to justice. […]

Russia’s actions in Syria only escalate conflict, Lithuanian foreign minister says

October 13, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius took part in the European Union‘s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 12 October, which focused on the situation in Syria and migration, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]

Lithuanian leaders condemn terrorist attacks in Ankara

October 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has strongly condemned the terrorist attack carried out against peaceful protesters in Ankara on Saturday. […]

President Grybauskaitė and Swedish royal couple visit Lithuanian seaside

October 9, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden are visiting the Lithuanian seaside on Friday. The third day of the Swedish royal state visit is dedicated to the Curonian Spit, the environmental initiatives launched in Lithuania and our historical heritage, the presidential press service said. […]

Lithuanian PM: We need to ‘motivate’ refugees to choose Lithuania

October 8, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

As the Lithuanian delegation visiting Greece has so far struggled to find a refugee family willing to seek asylum in Lithuania, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the country must to more to inform refugees about itself and “motivate” them to come. […]

Refugees will not be forced to come to Lithuania, PM says

October 7, 2015 ELTA EN 0

As a Lithuanian delegation is visiting Greece and unsuccessfully looking for refugees who could be resettled to Lithuania, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that migrants will not be brought to Lithuania by force. He hopes to find ways to encourage refugees to come here voluntarily. […]

Swedish royal couple arrives in Vilnius

October 7, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The aircraft with the Swedish royal couple landed at Vilnius International Airport today, at around 1 AM local time, the Lithuanian president’s office has confirmed to Elta. […]

Lithuanian president: Russia’s involvement in Syria will make refugee crisis worse

October 6, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Russia‘s recent involvement in the war in Syria will only worsen the plight of refugees who are making their way to Europe in thousands, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]

Lithuanian PM meets with new Japanese ambassador

October 6, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On Tuesday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Toyoei Shigeeda, the new ambassador of Japan in Lithuania, to discuss energy and transport, economic, cultural and scientific relations between Lithuania and Japan, the PM’s press service said. […]

President Grybauskaitė says Swiss army ‘nice example’ for Lithuania

October 6, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is leaving for a visit to Switzerland on Tuesday, says that the Swiss army, which is based on military conscription, is a “nice example” for Lithuania. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister meets with Jewish organisations in New York

October 5, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

During the session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 2 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with heads and representatives of major world and American Jewish organisations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]

President Grybauskaitė congratulates Germany on reunification anniversary

October 5, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 3 October President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to Federal President Joachim Gauck on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of German reunification celebrated on Unity Day, the presidential press service said. […]