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Seimas speaker to visit Israel in mid-October
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, will pay an official visit to Israel in mid-October. […]
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I. Makaraitytė. What can Saulius, Jūris and Maris give B. Netanyahu?
The Israeli prime minister came to Lithuania with a clear proposal that he did not sugar-coat or conceal. However, in Lithuania he was met by three confused prime ministers, jaws dropped in surprise and… uncoordinated […]
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Will Lithuania become Israel’s wedge in the European Union? The message Netanyahu sends to his own
With B. Netanyahu’s historic visit concluding, Lithuania is beginning to lean toward the US‘ position on Iran. This was the discussion topic on Delfi’s Dėmesio Centre with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lithuanian Prime […]
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Israeli PM says he respects Putin, won’t get involved in Ukrainian conflict
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he respects Russian President Vladimir Putin and will not interfere with the war in Ukraine as Israel has plenty of its own problems. […]
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Israeli PM speaks about friendship of ‘2 small democracies’ as he meets Lithuanian Jews
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about a friendship between “two small democracies” as he met with the Jewish community of Lithuania on the last day of his visit to Vilnius on Sunday. […]
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Israeli PM met with local Jewish community on last day of his visit to Lithuania
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the local Jewish community in Vilnius on Sunday, the last day of his visit to Lithuania. […]
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Israeli PM at WWII massacre site in Vilnius: ‘We’ll never be defenseless again’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday visited Paneriai, a Vilnius neighborhood where over 100,000 people, mostly Jews, were killed during World War Two. […]
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Israel doesn’t want to go back to clashes with Russia – Netanyahu in Vilnius
Israel seeks to maintain good relations with Russia in resolving conflicts in the Middle East as it does not want to go back to military clashes that took place half a century ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Vilnius on Friday. […]
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Israeli PM asks for Baltic support to step up EU pressure on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday asked for the Baltic countries’ support in increasing EU pressure on Iran. […]
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Lithuania wants closer ties with Israel, calls for obeying intl law, president says
Lithuania wants closer ties with Israel but also calls on Israel to stop the expansion of Jewish settlements and disproportionate use of force in the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
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Lithuania initiating EU-Israeli meeting on terrorism, PM says
Lithuania is initiating a meeting of EU and Israeli ministers to discuss terrorism threats and reduce tension between the European Union and the Jewish state, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said in an interview with BNS Lithuania on Friday. […]
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Israeli PM to honor Holocaust victims, meet with Baltic counterparts
Visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will on Friday honor the memory of Holocaust victims and discuss political issues with the three Baltic prime ministers. […]
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Israel wants to strengthen ties with Lithuania to counterbalance EU criticism
Visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will seek to strengthen bilateral ties with Lithuania to counterbalance, in his opinion, the European Union‘s unfounded criticism over Israel‘s treatment of the Palestinians. […]
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Israeli PM met with protests in Lithuania over Palestine
Several dozen supporters of Palestine staged a demonstration outside the Lithuanian government’s building in central Vilnius on Thursday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s visit. […]
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Israeli PM arrives in Lithuania for historic visit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Lithuania on Thursday for a historic visit. […]
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Netanyahu to seek Baltic support for changing EU attitude towards Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes that meetings with the Baltic states’ leaders will help to change the European Union‘s attitudes towards Israel. […]
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Israeli PM Netanyahu to arrive in Lithuania for historic visit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is arriving in Lithuania for a historic visit on Thursday. […]
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Israeli PM Netanyahu to make historic visit to Lithuania this week
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to pay a visit to Lithuania this week, Lithuanian government officials confirmed to BNS on Monday. […]
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PM pledges to preserve shared Lithuanian-Israeli cultural heritage
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Thursday visited the Jewish school of Sholom Alecheim for events of 70-year anniversary of Israel‘s independence. […]
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Ambassador in Israel: this time we will react to anti-Lithuanian hysteria
“We often choose to not react to such matters. There is no point to give the same responses repeatedly to the same people – Zuroff, Katz. There is neither desire, nor capacities, nor, finally, any […]