The Snow Meeting is a highlight of the European security calendar. It is like Davos, except that it is smaller and full of people who really know what is going on (Davos is full of people who would like to know what is going on). […]
On 19 January, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius met with Under Secretary General for Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Carlos Antonio da Rocha Paranhos, Oswaldo Biato, Director of the Europe Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other officials. The officials discussed bilateral relations and opportunities for economic cooperation, the MFA said. […]
The existing sanctions have not only an economic, but also a political effect on Russia, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says, adding that there are currently no signs that would allow to speak about changing the existing policy. […]
On 16 January, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Foreign Minister of Latvia, and Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Foreign Minister of Estonia, who are taking part in the Snow Meeting. […]
The traditional informal Snow Meeting and the Vilnius Forum of Intellectuals began on 15 January. At the opening of the Forum, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius stressed the importance of dialogue with the Russian society. […]
Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas has said on Thursday he does see signs of thaw in Vilnius-Moscow relations. […]
Former deputy minister of foreign affairs Vytautas Leškevičius has been proposed as Lithuania’s permanent representative to NATO. […]
Snow Meeting, a traditional informal discussion club, organised by the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania since 2008, will be held on 15-16 January in Trakai and Vilnius, the ministry said in a press release. […]
On 9 January, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius visited Brussels, where he met with Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the European Jewish Association, and Henri Gutman, president of the Jewish Laic Community Centre, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
Lilia Shevtsova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, says that Vladimir Putin is a far cry from the shrewd and effective leader everyone, friends and foes alike, take him to be. On the contrary, she says, the Russian president is a shallow mediocrity who has not got a clue how to avert his country’s imminent collapse. […]
Last Saturday, 10 January, the 24th international run, the Road of Life and Death, dedicated to commemorate defenders of Lithuania’s freedom, took place in Lithuania, Belgium and Ireland. Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also took part in the event. […]
Petras Vaitiekūnas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to Ukraine, has decided to quit the diplomatic service after returning to Vilnius once his term of office ends. Vaitiekūnas’, 61, diplomatic career spanned over two decades, vz.lt reports. He served as Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs between 2006 and 2008. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is traveling to France on Sunday to pay homage to the victims of terror attacks and join leaders of other countries at a massive solidarity rally in Paris, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Lithuania has become the eurozone’s 19th member, but only half of Lithuanians are in favour of the new currency. That will change, Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius told DW, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
On 8 January in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will meet with Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Philip Hammond, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
I am not a fan of the social-democratic tradition of foreign policy, especially when it comes to perpetually unsuccessful attempts of the Lithuanian left to “turn a new page in relations with Russia” and base their policies towards Poland on promises about name spelling. I dare say, however, that Dovilė Jakniūnaitė’s criticism of Lithuania’s foreign policy in 2014 is unfounded. […]
What could we say about Lithuanian foreign policy last year? Most would likely agree that it was visible, audible and active. These words define the form very well, but what could we say about the content? […]
The United Nations Security Council might hold a meeting in January to discuss the Ukrainian conflict, Lithuanian diplomats say. […]
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