Defence
Poland
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Lithuania supports Poland for UN Security Council
Lithuania has expressed support to Poland running for the United Nations Security Council, Foreign Ministry said on Thursday after consultations between UN departments of both countries. […]
Defence
Some 71% of Poles think Poland should defend Baltics in case of attack
Seventy-one percent of Poles think that their country should defend the Baltic countries if they were attacked, according to a public opinion poll published by the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita. […]
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Beniušis. Will Karbauskis follow in Kaczynski’s steps?
When I go abroad I like to have a chat with taxi drivers – they help better understand the moods of the public. A young taxi driver I met in Warsaw in May this year cursed “I’m emigrating in a month to Norway with my family and won’t return until Jaroslaw Kaczynski is behind bars.” This is how he evaluated the work of the Poland‘s majority government leader. I was reminded of this story when some “Facebook friends,” who are Conservative/Liberal voters from Vilnius spoke of emigration if Ramūnas Karbauskis’ “Peasant Greens” enter government. Karbauskis himself states that the fight with emigration will be his greatest priority Vaidas Beniušis writes in BNS. […]
Defence
European Union
Europe must keep sanctions against aggressive Russia – Grybauskaitė
Europe must continue its sanctions on Russia amid the Russian military action in Syria and Ukraine, as well as the demonstration of nuclear-capable weaponry in the Baltic Sea region, Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto said at a meeting with his Lithuanian counterpart, Dalia Grybauskaitė, on Tuesday. […]
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Russia deploying Iskander at Lithuanian border to get concessions from West
Russia is deploying nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius confirmed on Saturday. […]
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ELECTIONS. Linkevičius and Ažubalis debate foreign policy
Lithuanian interests are best served through close cooperation with the USA and Poland. This is seen as almost something of an axiom for Lithuanian foreign policy. Incumbent Minister of Foreign Affairs, Social Democrat Linas Linkevičius […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian-Polish ties miserably worse – Adamkus
The relations between Lithuania and Poland are enduring a miserable chill, says Lithuania’s former president Valdas Adamkus, expressing hope that the ties between the two neighboring states would no longer be burdened by disputes about the spelling of personal and location names. […]
Defence
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ELECTIONS. People’s Party and Polish Election Action programmes show little creativity
Experts have observed that the Lithuanian People’s Party and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families’ Union (LLRA-KŠS) electoral programmes discuss the same things, just in different wording. Furthermore they have noted that the […]
Energy
First scheduled maintenance of LitPol Link finalised
The maintenance works of the LitPol Link interconnection were accomplished on Saturday afternoon. It was the first annual disconnection of the power link with Poland for the maintenance. After the works were performed, the interconnection was again put into operation on September 18, Litgrid communications department informed. […]
Defence
Diplomat: Minority situation may make it difficult to persuade Poles to defend Lithuania
A Polish diplomat stated on Friday that the situation of Polish minorities in Lithuania is worse than that in Belarus, and the outstanding problems may make it difficult to persuade Polish troops to take care of Baltic security. […]
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Kwasniewski, in Vilnius, says Russia has to stop seeing Ukraine as artificial state
Russia‘s aspirations to regain its influence in Ukraine can only be changed if it stops seeing Ukraine as “an artificial state”, Poland‘s former President Aleksander Kwasniewski said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
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Green Party and Homeland Union exchanges over foreign policy
Russia is not a terrorist state thus relations with it should be improved Linas Balsys, head of the Lithuanian Green Party (LŽP) stated in an interview with LRT Radio. According to him only the President […]
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Gas link between Lithuania and Poland delayed
Due to technical issues on the Polish side, the Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) project between Lithuania and Poland will be completed at least a year later, by 2020 or even 2021. The delays are not, […]
Foreign affairs
‘Three stages’ of Lithuanian-Polish relationship
The Lithuanian-Polish relations are quite normal and do not need to be normalized, says Vilnius University lecturer Marijuš Antanovič. Instead, he adds, they need a renewal, because in their current situation they are best described as ‘Cold Peace’. […]
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Chechens barred entry into Poland
A large group of Chechens have set up a camp in Brest, a Belarussian city next to the Polish border, in protest of having been barred from entering Poland. The Polish government has said that […]
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