On 21 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres and the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed. Lithuanian diplomat is said to have discussed bilateral cooperation, …
On 19 May in Tel Aviv, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius opened a photography exhibition ‘A Kaddish for Wooden Synagogues of Lithuania’ at Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, the Foreign Ministry has informed. “Lithuania has remained almost the only …
BNS Poland’s outgoing Ambassador to Lithuania Janusz Skolimowski says the relations between the two neighbouring states and nations are very good. He added, though, that the thinking of Lithuania’s incumbent centre-left government is different from the earlier centre-right Cabinet. After meeting with Prime Minister Algirdas …
On 19 May in Jerusalem, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius visited the World Centre for Holocaust Research – Yad Vashem – where he laid a wreath and paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. Linkevičius met with Chairman of the …
On 19 May, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius visited the Palestinian National Authority, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed. At the meeting with the Foreign Minister of the Palestinian National Authority Riyad Al-Maliki, he stressed the importance of the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian …
On 18 May, Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius condemned the anti-Semitic act carried out in Panevėžys during which a swastika was painted on the doors of Panevėžys Youth school and the building of Jewish community of Panevėžys. “I strongly condemn any acts carried out …
This week, on 14 May, Lithuanian Ambassador to the UK Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė met with David Curtis-Brignell, board member of the Tourism Society, the Baltic Course reports with reference to the news agency LETA and the Embassy of Lithuania in the UK. Tourism Society is …
BNS Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius is on a working visit in Krakow on Friday to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group, Eastern Partnership countries and Ireland dedicated to Eastern Partnership matters in the run-up to the European Union (EU) and …
On 16May, 2013, Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė observed European Union (EU) battle group exercises, held at Westdown Camp military base. More than one thousand military personnel from Lithuania, United Kingdom, Latvia, Sweden and the Netherlands take part in the exercises …
On 14 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and the Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Vytautas Leškevičius met with the Undersecretary of Turkey’s Ministry for EU Affairs Haluk Ilıcak, Foreign Ministry has informed. The diplomats are said to have discussed progress …
On 14 May in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Foreign Ministry informed. They emphasised the need to better inform Ukrainians about the EU, accelerating progress in converging with the European …
BNS The Lithuanian EU presidency will open up new opportunities for Belarus, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said. “Towards the end of the Lithuanian Days, we will start the Lithuanian EU presidency which will open up new opportunities for Belarus and other eastern …
BNS According to Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, Lithuania has to be patient in its efforts to see Belarus choose the path to Europe, although sometimes it’s a frustrating task. Meanwhile, the Minister thinks that friendship with Poland is of strategic importance to Lithuania, and …
On 2-3 May, the annual convention of heads of Lithuanian diplomatic missions is held in Vilnius. The convention focuses on Lithuania’s incoming Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Lithuanian Foreign Ministry informs. On 2 May, the agenda includes meetings of the participants of …
BNS Lithuanian diplomats should pay exceptional attention to economic and energy security amid the chancing geopolitical situation, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday when she met Lithuanian ambassadors accredited to foreign countries. This year, the traditional meeting focused on the upcoming Lithuanian EU Presidency and …
BNS Russian Ambassador to Lithuania Vladimir Chkhikvadze says that Moscow deems the demand to compensate damages caused by the Soviet occupation as closed for good. “The issue of compensation demands made to today’s Russia is to us closed once and for all,” Chkhikvadze said in …
BNS The European Union would not support the signing of the Association Agreement with Ukraine just yet, as the country has to clear doubts of selected justice, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. After visiting Kiev with his Polish, Dutch and Danish colleagues on Thursday, …
BNS Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says that progress has been made since the last discussion on the EU Eastern Partnership two months ago, but the EU has to find ways to better take into account expectations of partners ahead of the forthcoming …
On 18 April, 2013, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed a note to the Embassy of Belarus in Lithuania protesting a violation of the Lithuanian airspace by a Belarusian military jet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed. The Embassy is requested to provide all …
BNS Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius is on a working visit in Sweden on Friday. He is scheduled to have a business breakfast with representatives of Swedish companies and a meeting with SEB Baltic division chief David Teare. At noon, the Lithuanian Prime Minister is …
