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Lithuania to focus on Ukraine’s human rights situation at UN Human Rights Council

September 8, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

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. […]

Opinion

Opinion: Keeping the Baltic identity alive

September 8, 2014 Mindaugas Jurkynas 0

The 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way gives food for thought about a number of things: the neo-fascist threats from Russia, about the place of idols and sculptures in Grūtas Park and the museum reminiscent of the occupation of Lithuania, about the security of Lithuania and Ukraine after a quarter of a century since the restoring statehood and about the Baltic identity. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė, Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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President Grybauskaitė: NATO agreed on new measures to boost Lithuania’s security

September 5, 2014 DELFI EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and leaders of other NATO member states have agreed in Wales on additional measures to deal with newly emerging threats and beef up the defence of the allied countries, including Lithuania. […]

Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė

Denmark to send 300 troops to Baltics and Poland

September 5, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

With NATO’s relationship to Russia having “fallen apart”, Denmark‘s PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt has pledged troops and equipment to the country’s eastern NATO partners. […]

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Little chance of success for Putin’s peace plan, says Lithuanian foreign minister

September 4, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says it is difficult to expect that the peace plan proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin will be successful, because it refuses to admit the realities in eastern Ukraine. […]