On 8 May each year, the world pays tribute to the victims of World War Two. The following day, 9 May, Russia celebrates its Victory Day with pompous parades of tanks and displays of arms. This year, on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, many Western leaders turned down invitations to come to Moscow, sending instead their lower-ranking representatives, mostly their ambassadors, to Russia. […]
Lithuania’s outgoing Ambassador to Georgia has been awarded an Order of Honour of Georgia, the Baltic country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. […]
On 1 May, Lithuania takes over the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council. During the month of Presidency Lithuania intends to focus on protection of civilians – safety of journalists in conflict situations, threat posed by small arms and light weapons to the civilian population; as well as ways to combat the threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters, possible links between organised crime and human trafficking in the Mediterranean, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
The foreign ministers of Lithuania and Sweden are going to Moldova on Monday to discuss the country’s relations with the European Union (EU) and security matters. […]
Lithuania may soon join its Baltic neighbours in OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) membership. Lithuania was invited to start the organization’s multi-year ascension process last month, a process Latvia started in 2012. Estonia joined the OECD in 2010. […]
On 30 April, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Lithuania Wei Ruixing. The meeting focused on bilateral relations, future opportunities for development of trade in agricultural sector, cooperation in China+16 format, and future prospects, the Government’s press service said. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated Queen Elizabeth II and the people of the United Kingdom on the birth of the daughter of the Duke of Cambridge William and Duchess Catherine. […]
Russia‘s ambassador summoned to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Thursday for a protest on hindrances made by military vessels to the laying of NordBalt cable between Lithuania and Sweden did not give any answers. […]
On 27 April in New York, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, met with Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, who is participating in the Fourteenth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). […]
Rimantas Vaitkus, former CEO of Lithuania’s Visagino Atominė Elektrinė (Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant, or VAE), has been given a Japanese state award for fostering ties between Lithuania and Japan. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday opened an honorary consulate in Saudi Arabia‘s second-largest city Jeddah. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Ministry’s (MFA) Twitter account is among the top five most mutually connected accounts of world leaders on Twitter. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday it had managed to contact all 36 Lithuanian nationals who are currently in Nepal. […]
Lithuania’s Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis and China‘s Deputy Education Minister Li Weihong signed an agreement on bilateral recognition of academic qualifications. The agreement was signed at the 5th Asia-Europe Meeting of Ministers for Education (ASEM ME5) which is being held on 27-28 April in Riga, Latvia. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands on the King’s Day, a national holiday in the country. […]
About 60 Lithuanian nationals were in Nepal during the powerful earthquake that shook the country on Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday, adding that attempts to contact four of them have so far been unsuccessful. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius expects that his first visit to Saudi Arabia will soon produce good results, saying that the country is waiting for a Lithuanian business delegation and is interested in Lithuanian goods. […]
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