The European Union‘s Ambassador in Moscow Vygaudas Ušackas says that Lithuania should work to expand its circle of friends in Russia, possibly through more active involvement cooperation among universities. […]
Former Lithuanian Ambassador to the EU Raimundas Karoblis will be appointed a deputy minister of foreign affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said on Tuesday. […]
On the last days of his term as the President of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski made a present to Lithuania. He handed over documents relating to his grandparents’ former estate in Lithuania and works by a Polish artist who lived in Lithuania. […]
We meet with Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis on a quiet Sunday morning in the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for the last interview before he leaves the USA and returns to Lithuania. […]
Lithuania has rejected a visa application from a Russian citizen whose passport specified the Republic of Crime as part of Russia as his place of birth, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday. […]
Four more Ukrainian soldiers, injured during the war in Eastern Ukraine, arrived in Lithuania for rehabilitation on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry confirmed to BNS. […]
During the second half of this year, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will pay visits to ten foreign countries, including Vatican where she will have an audience with Pope Francis. […]
On 31 July in Ohrid, Ambassador of Lithuania Rasa Kairienė presented her letters of credence to President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov. After the ceremony, the officials discussed prospects for the development of bilateral relations and multilateral cooperation, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Ukraine’s Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavičius, who is Lithuanian, is visiting Vilnius on Friday. […]
By vetoing on Wednesday a UN Security Council resolution on setting up a tribunal for those responsible for the Malaysian plane MH17 tragedy, Russia blocked the way for ensuring justice for the families of the victims, Dainius Baublys, a minister counselor at Lithuania’s Permanent Mission to the UN, says. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has extended greetings to Kazakhstan over the successful completion of 20 years of negotiations for the membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the PM’s Office reports. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has presented letters of credence to Rolandas Kriščiūnas, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America, the presidency reports. […]
After receiving official information about the corruption charges against Lithuania’s honorary consul in Barcelona Jordi Sumarroca, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is most likely to refuse his services, says Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
There was a time right after World War Two when Lithuanians believed that the United States of America would swoop into a Soviet-occupied country and drive the Soviets away. These hopes were rather baseless, yet the USA did stand by its policy not to recognise the annexation of the Baltic states. The start of this policy is believed to be July 23rd, 1940, with the declaration to this effect by US State Secretary Sumner Welles. […]
Taiwan‘s diplomats have apologized in Vilnius for the recent incident when Lithuania’s old Soviet anthem was played during the award ceremony of the 2015 World Deaf Basketball Championship after the Lithuanian team won gold. […]
The United States remembers the 75-year-old Welles Declaration as “an indelible sign of our shared commitment to freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity”, United States Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday handed letters of credence to Sigutė Jakštonytė, the country’s first ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. […]
The building in Washington, DC, formerly known as ‘Swiss Embassy, Cuban Special Interest Section’ became as of Monday midnight officially the Cuban Embassy. Located right next to the Lithuanian Embassy in the US capital, the brass plates outside at the embassy were changed at midnight, after nearly 55 years of frozen diplomatic relations. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that diplomats responsible for economic affairs are well informed about foreign markets that Lithuania finds attractive, however, the results of their work normally are revealed in the long-term perspective. […]
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