US congressmen visit Lithuania

August 29, 2017 BNS EN Foreign affairs 0
US Congress
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Doug Lamborn, Andy Barr, John Shimkus and Earl Carter are scheduled to meet on Tuesday with Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, to discuss regional security, the situation in Ukraine and energy security, the speaker’s chief of staff Gintare Žukaitė told BNS.

The visiting US politicians are members of the House of Representatives’ committees for Armed Services, Financial Services and Energy and Commerce.

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