European Union
Lithuanian foreign minister: EU must continue pressure on Russia over Ukraine
The European Union must continue its pressure on Russia for the war in Eastern Ukraine, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
Middle East
European Union
Lithuanian foreign minister to discuss Ukraine at EU Foreign Affairs Council
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will attend the European Union‘s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday. The main topic on the agenda is the situation in Ukraine. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Orientalism reanimated or colonial thinking in Western analysts’ comments on Ukraine
Over the last few months, pro-Russian commentators in many Western countries have been portraying the Ukrainian events using a mix of stereotypes that scarily resemble the rhetoric once typical of racist and imperialist ways of thinking. As a result of such stereotypes, Ukrainians (but also Georgians, Moldovans, Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians) have fallen victims to a new form of Orientalism, a distorted way of thinking that people in the West exhibit all too often when talking about other parts of the world. […]
European Union
EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting to focus on Ebola
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is participating at the European Union (EU) Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday. […]
Uncategorized
Moscow’s plan to decoy the West
Moscow seems to be making effort to patch up its relations with the West after a fall-out over Ukraine by trying to refocus attention away from Eastern Europe and onto the Middle East. Experts say, however, that the trick might not work. […]
Foreign affairs
President Grybauskaitė at UN General Assembly: Silent consent to aggression does not help global stability
Global peace is not a self-evident fact but common responsibility of all countries, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said in her speech at the general debate of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly. […]
Opinion
Foreign affairs
Lithuania condemns killing of British aid worker captured in Syria
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the killing of a humanitarian aid worker from the United Kingdom, David Haines, stating that the crimes cannot undermine the efforts against terrorism. […]
Foreign affairs
President: Lithuania interested in boosting food exports to Israel
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Vilnius on Thursday and emphasized Lithuania’s interest of boosting exports of food products to the country. […]
Foreign affairs
Israel’s foreign minister in Vilnius: Nuclear proliferation in Middle East a “horror film”
Israel‘s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who paid a working visit to Lithuania, said the nuclear programme of Iran was a threat to the whole world and compared the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East to a horror film. […]
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Lithuania to focus on Ukraine’s human rights situation at UN Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council holds its 27th regular session from 8 to 26 September in Geneva. During the session, Lithuania and other member states of the European Union will pay particular attention to the human rights situation in Ukraine and the Middle East – Syria, the occupied Palestinian territory and Iraq – as well as the right to liberty, development and privacy in the digital age, non-discrimination on grounds such as race and gender, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Foreign affairs
Israeli foreign minister to visit Lithuania
Israel‘s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman will be paying a working visit to Lithuania on 10-11 September, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs. […]
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Putin forces West to choose between Ukraine and Middle East (I)
When on 15 January 1991, the United Nations issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to withdraw troops from occupied Kuwait, it was clear for Lithuania that the Soviet Union might take advantage of this event and hit back at our independence. […]
Opinion
Opinion: In Wales, NATO will have to decide what it is
The NATO summit on 4-5 September in Wales can be considered the most important meeting of NATO member state leaders since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States of America. Paradoxically enough, at the beginning of planning the meeting, it was not entirely clear what the leaders should discuss. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliament delegation sees potential in trade with Iran
Iran could become Lithuania’s gate to the Middle Eastern region, says Vice-Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Algirdas Sysas who has recently returned from Iran. […]