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Lithuanian president to attend Maidan memorial events in Ukraine
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will this week go to Ukraine to attend events to mark the anniversary of Euromaidan rallies. […]
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Marius Janukonis to be appointed Lithuania’s new ambassador to Ukraine
Director of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry‘s Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department, Marius Janukonis, will be appointed as Lithuania’s new ambassador to Ukraine. […]
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Lithuanian PM meets with Israeli ambassador
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with incoming Israeli Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon on Tuesday and said he hoped for cultural exchanges between the two nations. […]
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Lithuania’s MFA strongly condemns killing of Egyptian Copts
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has strongly condemned the killing of Egyptian Copts and extended the deepest sympathy to the families of the victims and to all Egyptians. […]
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Lithuania and Poland abandon tradition to celebrate independence together
The tradition for Lithuanian and Polish presidents to visit each other’s country for independence day celebrations has died. […]
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Lithuanian foreign minister: Truce in Ukraine does not hold
Pro-Russian separatists are not keeping up with the truce terms, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says, stressing that Ukraine has to state the fact. He also hopes tighter sanctions against Russia from Western leaders. […]
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US leaders congratulate Lithuania on Independence Day
US leader have congratulated Lithuania on the occasion of the upcoming Day of Restoration of the State of Lithuania on February 16. United States President Barack Obama congratulated Lithuania via Secretary of State John Kerry. […]
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Lithuania’s foreign minister discusses cooperation with Israeli ambassador
On 12 February, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius received Israel‘s new Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon. Minister stressed that the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Vilnius would further strengthen the partnership between Lithuania and Israel and people-to-people contacts, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
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Lithuania considers closing embassy in Belgium
Lithuania is considering to close its embassy in Belgium, parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Benediktas Juodka said on Wednesday. […]
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Lithuanian parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee: Reset of relations with Russia failed
The Lithuanian government‘s aim to reset relations with Russia failed, says Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. […]
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Lithuania expects China’s statement to bring “new phase of cooperation”
Lithuania’s government hopes that the statement published by China on Tuesday will pave way for trade and economic cooperation, as well as put an end to diplomatic tensions that started when the Dalai Lama visited Vilnius 18 months ago. […]
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China issues statement on relations with Lithuania
China wants to develop friendly relations with Lithuania after they soured when Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Dalai Lama in Vilnius in 2013, the Chinese’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a statement published on the ministry’s website on Tuesday. […]
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Vytautas Leškevičius appointed as Lithuania’s permanent representative to NATO
Vytautas Leškevičius has been appointed as Lithuania’s permanent representative to NATO after President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed a relevant decree. […]
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India opens honorary consulate in Lithuania
India‘s honorary consulate in Lithuania has been opened in Vilnius on Friday and will be headed by Honorary Consul Rajinder K. Chaudhary, owner of Indian restaurant Sue‘s Indian Raja. […]
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Lithuania opens new visa centres in Belarus
On Friday, 6 February, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs opened new visa issuance centres for the citizens of Belarus in Minsk, Gomel, Grodno and Brest. […]
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Lithuanian foreig minister and Norwegian ambassador discuss children’s rights protection
On 6 February, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and Dag Malmer Halvorsen, Ambassador of Norway to Lithuania, discussed the protection of the rights of Lithuanian citizens in Norway and possible cooperation of the two countries on children’s rights protection. […]
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Lithuania opens honorary consulate in Finland
Lithuania opened a honorary consulate in Kuopio, a city in eastern Finland. It will be headed by Esa Karvinen, the director general of Savo education consortium, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said. […]
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Lithuanian MEP goes on hunger strike over imprisoned Ukrainian pilot
Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius has started a hunger strike over the illegal imprisonment of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko in Russia. […]
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Lithuanian military aircraft to take humanitarian aid to Ukraine
On 5 February, the Spartan C-27 aircraft of the Lithuanian Air Force will transport to Ukraine donations of humanitarian aid committed by the Lithuanian Ministries of Healthcare and National Defence. […]