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Sigmar Gabriel and Frank-Walter Steinmeier: A confident and realistic approach to refugee crisis

October 15, 2015 Sigmar Gabriel 0

What are our obligations to those threatened by war and violence? What and how much can we cope with? When will we reach our uppermost limits? Each of these three questions is quite legitimate. But if the debate is restricted to the media soundbites “we can do it” and “the boat is full”, then the refugee crisis threatens to tear our society apart. We need an honest discussion about our realistic scope for action. […]

Lithuanian delegation going to Italy to inspect handling of refugees

October 14, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

A delegation of the Lithuanian government is visiting Italy where it is looking into how the country, which has been one of the gateways of migrants from the Middle East and Africa coming to Europe, is handling the refugee flow. […]

Russia’s actions in Syria only escalate conflict, Lithuanian foreign minister says

October 13, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius took part in the European Union‘s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 12 October, which focused on the situation in Syria and migration, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]

Girnius: With Russia in Syria, danger to Baltic states is gone

October 9, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Kęstutis Girnius, associate professor at Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science, says Russia‘s intervention in Syria means that Moscow does not have any plans to attack Lithuania or other Baltic states. […]

Lithuanian PM: We need to ‘motivate’ refugees to choose Lithuania

October 8, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

As the Lithuanian delegation visiting Greece has so far struggled to find a refugee family willing to seek asylum in Lithuania, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the country must to more to inform refugees about itself and “motivate” them to come. […]

British defence secretary wants to send a strong message to Russia about Baltic defence

October 8, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

NATO should step up pressure on Russia to use its influence on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as well as to give a more resolute response to Moscow’s “testing” of the Alliance’s flank in the Baltics, UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said in an interview to The Wall Street Journal published on Wednesday. […]

Refugees will not be forced to come to Lithuania, PM says

October 7, 2015 ELTA EN 0

As a Lithuanian delegation is visiting Greece and unsuccessfully looking for refugees who could be resettled to Lithuania, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that migrants will not be brought to Lithuania by force. He hopes to find ways to encourage refugees to come here voluntarily. […]

Landsbergis lambastes NATO, Obama and Turkey for failing to deter Moscow

October 7, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

Vytautas Landsbergis, the patriarch of Lithuanian politics known for his tough anti-Russian stance, is uncompromisingly critical of how NATO countries have responded to Russia‘s recent incursions into Turkey‘s airspace. […]

Lithuanian president: Russia’s involvement in Syria will make refugee crisis worse

October 6, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Russia‘s recent involvement in the war in Syria will only worsen the plight of refugees who are making their way to Europe in thousands, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]

Lithuanian delegation in Greece says no Syrians in refugee camps

October 6, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

A delegation from Lithuania, led by Deputy Minister of Interior Elvinas Jankevičius, continues a visit in Greece where on Monday it met with local officials to discuss selection and resettlement of asylum seekers. […]

Russia’s actions in Syria lead to more chaos, Lithuanian president’s advisor says

October 6, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Chief advisor to the Lithuanian president on foreign policy, Renaldas Vaisbrodas, says that Russia is not fighting ISIS in Syria, but is instead supporting President Bashar al-Assad‘s regime, which, he says, contradicts the goals of the international coalition fighting ISIS. […]

Opinion: Managing refugee crisis and main risks

October 2, 2015 BNS 0

Discussions about the refugee crisis and how to solve it has moved from the European Union to the United Nations General Assembly, where most national leaders spoke about settling the conflicts in Syria and Iraq and fighting international terrorism. Among the highlights were the speeches and meeting of the presidents of the United States and Russia. […]

Lithuanian analyst: Who is Russia actually fighting in Syria?

October 1, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Russia launched airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday in what it says is an effort to weaken ISIS. “The main question is what Russia is actually fighting in this case, since Russia’s enemy is not exactly the enemy identified by the West,” says analyst Linas Kojala of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Vilnius. […]

Minister Linkevičius: UN Security Council failed to respond to Syrian crisis

October 1, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The United Nations Security Council has failed to adequately respond to the Syrian crisis, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said during a debate on the Middle East conflicts organized in New York on Wednesday. […]

Lithuanian PM sceptical about Russia’s sincerity in Syria

October 1, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is sceptical about Russia‘s airstrikes in Syria, saying that preliminary information suggests Moscow is not entirely honest when it says it is only targeting ISIS. […]

No ‘inter-institutional coordination’ as Lithuania prepares for refugees, parliament speaker says

September 28, 2015 BNS 0

There a lack of inter-institutional cooperation in Lithuania as the Baltic country prepares to receive refugees, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė said on Monday after her visit to the Refugees Reception Centrė in Rukla, central Lithuania. […]

Syrian refugee: Doing business is hard in Lithuania

September 28, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Pierre Naoum sold his property in Syria and invested the money into a pizza restaurant that he opened in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he was granted asylum. […]

Lithuanian universities to offer free spots to refugees

September 25, 2015 BNS 0

Every university of Lithuania intends to enrol between several and a few dozen refugees, financing their tuition. […]

Lithuanian Tatars offer help with refugee integration

September 25, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Tatar community has offered to help the country’s government with the integration of refugees to be resettled in Lithuania. Lithuania’s Tatars also call on people not to be afraid of Muslims and not to identify them with extremist groups. […]

Benajamin Netanyahu meeting Vladimir Putin

Opinion: Intractable mess of ever more surreal Middle East crisis

September 25, 2015 Christopher Patrick Kline 0

The Syrian War has turned a new page of Machiavellian dark farce with the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Moscow. […]