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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. […]
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Oman interested in Lithuanian food and Klaipėda port potential, PM says
Oman is interested in imports of food products from Lithuania and exports of its commodities to the Baltic and Nordic states via Lithuania’s Klaipėda port, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said during a visit in the country. […]
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Baltic and Benelux countries back expanding Russia sanctions, Lithuanian foreign minister says
The Baltic and Benelux countries agree on the need to expand the existing sanctions against Russia by including more people into the blacklist. They also backed the introduction of new sectoral sanctions, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linkevičius said on Wednesday after meeting with his Baltic and Benelux counterparts in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. […]
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Lithuanian president receives letters of credence from Israeli ambassador
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accepted letters of credence from Israeli Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon, the presidential press service informs. […]
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Lithuanian diplomats ask Norwegian authorities to allow to see child that was taken from mother
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway has promised Lithuanian Ambassador in Oslo Izolda Bričkovskienė to put every effort to officially confirm that a seven-year-old Lithuanian boy who was returned from Sweden is indeed in Norway. The boy’s mother attempted to take her son out of Norway, where the two lived. Swedish diplomats have said that Lithuania was not informed about the return of the child because his place of residence has not been declared in Lithuania. […]
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Lithuania’s conservative propose Hague Tribunal prosecution for civilian attacks in Ukraine
The opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats political group in the Lithuanian Seimas has proposed a resolution that would commit the Lithuanian parliament to seeking prosecution of people responsible for attacks on civilians in Ukraine in the Hague Tribunal. […]
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Former Lithuanian ambassador: We must stop Kremlin in Ukraine
Foreign countries must help Ukraine stop Russia and not allow the ongoing conflict to expand, former Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas said after being awarded a medal for merits to the Lithuanian diplomatic service on Monday. […]
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Lithuania, Italy deliver humanitarian aid to Ukraine
Lithuania will deliver a shipment of humanitarian aid worth EUR 83,532 in response to the appeal of the Head of the European Commission DG for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
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Lithuanian foreign minister: IS is embodiment of evil
On 1 February, Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius issued a statement on the killing of a Japanese journalist by terrorist organization IS. […]
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Lithuanian PM goes on visit to Oman
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, accompanied by a business delegation, is to leave on a visit to Oman on Monday. […]
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Lithuanian president tops Ukraine’s list of international friends
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė leads the annual rating Top-10 Ukraine‘s Promoters in the World 2014 presented by the Institute of World Policy, the President’s Office said on Thursday. […]
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Lithuania transferred NATO Contact Embassy in Sweden functions to Poland
On 28th January 2015, the Embassy of Lithuania in Sweden and the Embassy of Poland in Sweden jointly hosted the event to mark the transfer of duties of the NATO Contact Point Embassy from the Embassy of Lithuania to the Embassy of Poland. Event took place at the Residence of the ambassador of Lithuania. Lithuania held NATO Contact Embassy in Sweden functions in 2013-2014. […]
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Lithuania to state strong position on sanctions for Russia, president says
Vilnius will state a strong position on the European Union‘s (EU) sanctions for Russia, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
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Lithuania and Ukraine sign bilateral cooperation plan for 2015
Lithuania and Ukraine signed a bilateral cooperation plan for 2015 in Kiev on Wednesday. The document was signed by Lithuanian Vice Minister of National Defence Marijus Velička and Lieutenant General Leonid Holopatiuk, deputy defecse minister of Ukraine, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said in a statement. […]
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Lithuanian foreign minister joins Holocaust remembrance event in Auschwitz
On 27 January 2015, Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, together with the delegation led by the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Auschwitz, Poland. […]
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“Basketball diplomacy” puts Lithuanian diplomat under fire
With tensions flaring up again in eastern Ukraine after Russian-supported separatists attacked Mariupol, killing 30 civilians, policymakers and observers in Lithuania are particularly touchy when it comes to relations, or lack thereof, with Russia. Their ire can even fall on someone from their own team if he or she is as much as suspected of sympathies for Russia. […]
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Lithuanian president on Holocaust Day: Some people in Europe won’t acknowledge today’s aggressor
Europe must learn its history lessons and prevent the rise of a new aggressor whom some people don’t want to see, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday as the world marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. […]
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