Linas Linkevičius
Politics

Foreign minister: Nobody should doubt Lithuania’s willingness to help refugees

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania is not seeking particular quotas or figures as regards the migrant issue, however, it wants the criteria according to which refugees are distributed among the member-states to be transparent and correspondent to the country’s actual possibilities of taking in people. […]

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Lithuania against exceptions for blacklisted Russian representatives at OSCE PA, foreign minister says

Lithuania is against exceptions for Russia‘s representatives on Europe’s blacklist, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday after Russian State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin was not allowed to attend the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly in Helsinki, sparking Russia’s anger. […]

Linas Linkevičius
European Union

Lithuanian foreign minister: Russian sanction extension shows Europe can be united

EU foreign ministers’ decision on Monday to extend the existing economic sanctions against Russia shows that Europe can be united on the issue, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Defence

Lithuanian foreign minister: Stationing of US heavy weapons will change situation in region

Following US media reports that the Pentagon may station heavy weapons for its troops in several Eastern European and Baltic countries, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Sunday that these proposals are part of a US Congress-approved program to step up security in Eastern and Central Europe and that such weaponry would substantially change the security situation in Lithuania and throughout the region. […]

Linas Linkevičius
European Union

Lithuanian foreign minister criticises proposal to pick refugees by nationality

Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius has criticised the idea that the country should pick refugees to accept based on their country of origin. […]