The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expects that Austria‘s decision to close its embassies in the Baltic countries in the autumn of 2018 will not affect cooperation between Lithuania and Austria. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and John Boehner, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, discussed Lithuanian and regional security issues, the situation in Ukraine, and military and economic cooperation between Lithuania and the US during their meeting in Vilnius on Saturday. […]
Lithuania supports efforts to reach, as soon as possible, an EU-US free trade agreement that will boost bilateral trade and will further strengthen transatlantic relations, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after meeting with John Boehner, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, in Vilnius on Saturday. […]
The Government of Lithuania on Friday approved candidates for three ambassadorial positions. […]
With the creepy chill in the Lithuanian-Russian relations, the aftermath of the geopolitical square-off between Moscow and Western powers, the trade, amazingly, has taken the beating until this year quite well. “Quite paradoxically, the scope of Russia-bound Lithuanian export rose throughout 2014, while Russia was already gripped by Western economic sanctions,” Remigijus Motuzas, Lithuania’s ambassador to Russia, tells the Lithuania Tribune. This year, bilateral trade has started taking a hit, however. The Lithuanian Embassy in Moscow nevertheless keeps bustling as visitors are unfazed by the roughed up relations. […]
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Boehner is scheduled to come to Lithuania this week. […]
On 18 June in Batumi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Tamar Beruchashvili opened a Honorary Consulate of Lithuania. It is headed by Georgian businessman, Honorary Consul Temur Ustiashvili with jurisdiction over Adjara, Guria and Megrelia, the Lithuania MFA said. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis used a farewell speech at Energy Allies, one of the US energy associations, to review the long struggle of Lithuania to gain energy independence. The ambassador who is returning soon to Lithuania after five years of diplomatic service in Washington, DC, evaluated current energy policy trends and their impact on global politics in front of an audience of company representatives, energy lobbyists, diplomats, politicians and Congress cabinet staff. He urged for more US energy exports to re-balance the current geo-political situation. […]
Ambassadors do not pop up out of the blue and, for Marius Janukonis, Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine, the journey has been, he says, “a natural course of the diplomatic career”. But landing a diplomatic post in a country like Ukraine is obviously “a big challenge”, he agrees. […]
Lithuania’s government on Tuesday earmarked 32,000 euros for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send two additional diplomats to the Organization for Security and Cooperation’s (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Eastern Ukraine where the country’s governmental forces and Russian-supported separatists have been involved in clashes for over a year. […]
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Rolandas Kriščiūnas is proposed as Lithuania’s new ambassador to the United States. […]
Lithuania does not want confrontation with Russia, but Moscow must stick to agreements, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
The list of foreigners barred from entering Lithuania was extended last year, and the majority on the list were citizens of Russia and Belarus, shows data published by the Ministry of Interior Affairs. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is willing to send two additional diplomats to the Organization for Security and Cooperation’s (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Eastern Ukraine where clashes between the country’s governmental forces and Russian-supported separatists have been in progress for over a year. […]
Lithuania on Thursday officially opened its membership talks with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which currently includes 34 developed countries around the globe. […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has rejected criticism levied on him by his concervative predecessor Audronius Ažubalis, who said that during its presidency in the UN Security Council Lithuania failed to initiate an appeal to the International Court of Justice over Russia‘s annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea. […]
A delegation headed by Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius left for Paris on Wednesday to open membership negotiations with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). […]
The memory of former American President Ronald Reagan loomed large over the ceremony celebrating Lithuania’s opening of a Consulate General that was feted on Monday, 1 June 2015. Hosted by John Heubush, the director of the Ronald Reagan Library, the celebration took place in the presence of the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevičius, and the Lithuanian Ambassador to the USA, Žygimantas Pavilionis, a large number of diplomatic representatives, dignitaries and friends of Lithuania, including the former movie star Ruta Lee and Albinas Markevicius. […]
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