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Lithuanian diplomats to more actively promote business links abroad
Lithuanian diplomats that are tasked with helping Lithuanian companies find business partners abroad will now be provided with more specific and targeted tasks and supports to boost exports. The new approach was discussed by Lithuanian […]
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Lithuanian diplomats in Top 10 for breaking traffic laws in Berlin
In a city as big as Berlin traffic violations are to be expected. Berliners are particularly annoyed, however, when traffic violations go unpunished, that is, when they are committed by diplomatic staff of foreign embassies in Berlin. Lithuanian diplomats are among the top-ten violators of traffic rules. […]
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Hungarian ambassador presents letters of credence to Lithuanian president
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accepted letters of credence from Hungarian Ambassador Zoltan Jancsi. […]
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Croatia to open embassy in Lithuania
Croatia is to open an embassy in Vilnius by the end of this year, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. […]
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Lithuanian president accepts letters of credence from Greek ambassador
President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from Greek Ambassador Iraklis Asteriadis on Tuesday. The president and the ambassador discussed cooperation between Lithuania and Greece within the European Union as well as other topical bilateral issues, the presidential press service said. […]
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Lithuanian president accepts letters from ambassador of Honduras
President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from Honduran Ambassador Roberto Flores Bermudez, the presidential press service said. […]
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President Grybauskaitė presents letters of credence to Lithuania’s new ambassador to USA
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has presented letters of credence to Rolandas Kriščiūnas, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America, the presidency reports. […]
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Lithuanian president hands credentials to first ambassador to South Africa
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday handed letters of credence to Sigutė Jakštonytė, the country’s first ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. […]
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Lithuanian president tells diplomats not to be “faceless”
Diplomats cannot be “faceless” and personalities should represent Lithuania, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said during a Wednesday meeting with Lithuanian ambassadors residing in foreign countries. […]
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New ambassador in Kiev: It’s on me to live up to the reputation Lithuania earned in Ukraine
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. […]
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New Lithuanian Consulate General inaugurated in Los Angeles
Following a very busy Sunday of activities with the Lithuanian community in Los Angeles, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevičius, formally opened the new Lithuanian Consulate General in Los Angeles. […]
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Lithuania’s new ambassador takes office in Ukraine
Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine Marius Janukonis has handed credentials to the country’s President Petro Poroshenko, the Foreign Ministry said. […]
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Opinion
Opinion: Lithuania does not invest into its most important ally
A visit several weeks ago by Kurt Volker, former US ambassador to NATO and currently the head of the McCain Institute, would have gone unnoticed by the Lithuanian public, if it weren’t for a few media interviews. And even if it was noticed, many must have thought it of little consequence. […]
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President Grybauskaitė signs decrees on appointment of ambassadors to Georgia and Turkey
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed two decrees on appointment of new Lithuanian ambassadors to Georgia and Turkey. […]
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Lithuanian ambassador: Anti-government protests in Ukraine incited by interest groups
Lithuania’s new Ambassador in Kiev Marius Janukonis says that Ukraine currently has many economic problems, which might give cause for dissatisfaction among the population. However, he believes that any unrest would most likely be spurred by groups not eager about the country’s European future. […]
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Čekuolis appointed as Lithuania’s ambassador to 3 more countries
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed a decree under which Lithuania’s Ambassador to France Dalius Čekuolis is appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Principality of Monaco, the Kingdom of Morocco, and Tunisia. […]
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Lithuanian president appoints ambassador to Spain
President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed a decree on Monday appointing Skaistė Aniulienė as Lithuania’s Ambassador to Spain. She will assume duties on 8 June. […]