Dalia Grybauskaitė, Petro Poroshenko

Lithuanian president: Fragile truce in Ukraine is not peace

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine on Wednesday. The presidents co-chaired the eight session of the Council of the Presidents of Lithuania and Ukraine held in Vilnius to discuss the security situation in Ukraine, the implementation of the Minsk agreements and key legal and economic reforms in Ukraine, the press service of the Lithuanian presidency said. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė ir Saulius Skvernelis
Politics

Lithuanian president says interior minister staying in office is ‘his choice’

President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė says Saulius Skvernelis‘ decision to remain in office as the interior minister is “his choice”. […]

Vytautas Landsbergis and Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

President Grybauskaitė believes Freedom Prize should be given to Landsbergis

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is also among those who believe that the Seimas should have awarded the Freedom Prize 2015 to Vytautas Landsbergis, the first head of the restored and independent Republic of Lithuania, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (Reconstituent Seimas), signatory of the Independence Restoration Act. […]

Baltic Presidents Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Dalia Grybauskaitė, Raimunds Vejuonis
Foreign affairs

President Grybauskaitė‘s statement met with irony in Moscow

The statement made by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday that Lithuania would not participate in any coalition against the Islamic State that would involve Russia has been scorned in Moscow. […]

Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the National Security and Defence Committee
Politics

Lithuanian institutions demand extra funding to address terrorism threats

Reacting to the terrorist attacks in France, Lithuania’s Parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee has requested additional funding for the State Security Department, the Lithuanian Police Anti-Terrorist Operations Unit, Aras, and the State Border Guard Service. The committee requests to designate 14.4 million euro to these institutions in next year’s budget. […]