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		<title>One word does not reflect my stance on Holocaust: EU Rep in Afghanistan Ušackas</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/06/one-word-does-not-reflect-my-stance-on-holocaust-eu-rep-in-afghanistan-usackas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Lithuania]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s Israel Office released a statement criticising the European Union’s ambassador to Afghanistan, Vygaudas Ušackas for an article in the Wall Street Journal article, published on December 6th 2011, in which he wrote that citizens of Lithuania experienced “a respite from the Communists while the Nazis were in control,”.   Vygaudas Ušackas, the former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Usackas escapes bullet in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/04/13/usackas-escapes-bullet-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomatic news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[EU Special Envoy to Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Lithuanian Minister of Foreign affairs and now European Union ambassador to Afghanistan Vygaudas Usackas escaped unhurt after a bullet struck the window of his office in Kabul on Tuesday.Though the bullet did not penetrate the window, it did leave a mark on the bulletproof glass.
European Union officials said they were not sure if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Economy Minister Kreivys Millstone Around Government&#8217;s Neck?</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/14/is-economy-minister-kreivys-millstone-around-governments-neck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Internal Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Algis Caplikas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrius Kubilius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arvydas Sekmokas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discussions about whether Lithuanian Economy Minister Dainius Kreivys should or should not resign have transformed into a political game. Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, who is defending the economy minister, called for a vote of no confidence in the entire cabinet.  Saule Pauliuviene writes in Alfa.lt portal on 3 March. The ruling coalition partners, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of WikiLeaks hits Lithuania</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/10/overview-of-wikileaks-hits-lithuania/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/10/overview-of-wikileaks-hits-lithuania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been quite a number of documents surfacing from the WikiLeak saga that involve Lithuania. Below is a summary of the recently released items that have appeared in much of the Lithuanian and international media, LitNews.lt reported.
Lithuania attempted to sweep US money for Belarus incident under the carpet
A courier carrying US financial assistance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks – Lithuania was ready to take in 2 Guantanamo detainees</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/12/21/wikileaks-%e2%80%93-lithuania-was-ready-to-take-in-2-guantanamo-detainees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania promised to accept two Uzbek detainees from the Guantanamo detention centre back in spring 2009, documents from the WikiLeaks revel, the Russian website Russky Reporter said.  The Lithuanians agreed to take in the detainees immediately after the European Union has reached a consensus on the issue, according to the WikiLeaks.
‘Foreign Minister Usackas (now the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Usackas feels he is not just target in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/09/08/usackas-feels-he-is-not-just-target-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/09/08/usackas-feels-he-is-not-just-target-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valteris Baliukonis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian daily Lietuvos rytas on 19 August published an interview with Special EU Envoy to Afghanistan Vygaudas Usackas.
What has Vygaudas Usackas, who works in Afghanistan, managed to achieve during a few months there, asks Lietuvos rytas? What is the situation in this hotspot of the world, where hundreds of Lithuanians are serving and working?
Usackas, special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One should not rush to make judgments in Intl arena, by Mecys Laurinkus</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/08/16/one-should-not-rush-to-make-judgments-in-intl-arena-by-mecys-laurinkus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=3072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania’s leading daily Lietuvos rytas published an article by Mecys Laurinkus who is critical of the Lithuania’s foreign policy.  Laurinkus is the former head of the Lithuania’s State Security Service and the former Lithuania’s ambassador to Georgia who was recalled from there by President Dalia Grybauskaite.  The article was published on 7 July.
US State Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuanian&#8217;s energy contributes to support for Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/22/lithuanians-energy-contributes-to-support-for-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/22/lithuanians-energy-contributes-to-support-for-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vytautas Usackas, who has been working as the EU special representative to Afghanistan since April, believes that the most important thing is not to lose optimism, writes Lietuvos rytas paper on 3 July. He has already won the respect of the people working with him, but this alone is not enough to ensure the success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If President Were Man, Vygaudas Usackas Would Have Called Her Father</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/06/22/if-president-were-man-vygaudas-usackas-would-have-called-her-father/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Vygaudas Usackas, EU special envoy to Afghanistan and a former Lithuania’s Minister of foreign affairs, believes in the success of his mission in Afghanistan.  This interview was published in balsas.lt portal on 30 May. 
Nothing in common with the Soviet invasion

If the goal in Afghanistan is “to establish order,” NATO will certainly not manage to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dmitriy Rogozin: diplomat without &#8216;aqualung&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/04/28/dmitriy-rogozin-diplomat-without-aqualung/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exclusive interview with Russia&#8217;s envoy to NATO Dmitriy Rogozin, by Lithuania’s Russian minority weekly Ekspress Nedelia on 25 March.
In mid-March, narcissuses, crocuses, and tulips are in full bloom in Belgium. You can find these flowers everywhere: in Brussels and in the cozy suburbs surrounding the city, such as Ukkel (where the Russian Embassy, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Usackas entering Lithuanian politics</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/04/23/usackas-entering-lithuanian-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Vygaudas Usackas, the incumbent EU Envoy to Afghanistan and the former Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has announced that  become a member of the Conservative party.   By this announcement the party the ex-Minister has sent a strong signal that he is paving his way into Lithuanian politics. 
Usackas has served as a Lithuanian diplomat all his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Usackas says next two sears in Afghanistan to be critical</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/03/18/usackas-says-next-two-sears-in-afghanistan-to-be-critical/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/03/18/usackas-says-next-two-sears-in-afghanistan-to-be-critical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 15 March Alfa.lt posted an interview with EU Special Envoy to Afghanistan Vygaudas Usackas.
Former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas at the end of February was named EU special envoy to Afghanistan and head of the EU mission in that country. After the Lisbon Treaty came into force, the new post has fused the duties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kestutis Girnius. It&#8217;s Still Not a Time for Invitations to the Government&#8217;s Funeral</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/02/24/kestutis-girnius-its-still-not-a-time-for-invitations-to-the-governments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One can observe an enthusiastic hurry to arrange funeral for the Government. Old scenarios are being revived and new ones are being created. One could expect this, especially when there&#8217;s no parliamentary session. Guesses about the changes of coalitions and the breakdown of the Governments are analysts&#8217; daily bread as well as their professional deformation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has been chosen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Conservative party’s presidium has chosen Audronius Ažubalis for the Minister of Foreign Affairs post and approved request for resignation from the post of Vygaudas Ušackas.  The Party decided to delegate their colleague unanimously since it was the only one candidate.  The Conservative party is holding the post of the Minister of Foreign Affairs according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did V. Ušackas not understand? By Gintaras Aleknonis</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/01/22/what-did-v-usackas-not-understand-by-gintaras-aleknonis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would think that every minister should feel the political situation so well as never to receive an official suggestion from the head of state to leave his post. „I am not clinging to my chair, so if my resignation would solve the problems, I will immediately sign an application to resign,” -this standard sentence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania’s grey cardinal interviewed on relations with US, CIA prison and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuanian web site Delfi on 12 January published an interview with Albinas Januška, a former state secretary of the Foreign Ministry, former adviser to President Valdas Adamkus and Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas, and signatory to the Lithuanian Independence Act. 
Some commentators call him Lithuania’s grey cardinal and a mastermind behind so called group called the ‘Statesmen’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs will resign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania’s Prime Minsiter Kubilius said this morning that the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Usackas should submit his letter of resignation in the nearest future.  He also stated that he is sorry for Mr Usackas to go, since he is one of the best diplomats Lithuania has.  President Grybauskaite expressed her non-confidence towards the Minister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grybauskaite expected to receive Min of Foreign Affairs’ letter of resignation on 20 Jan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Lithuanian commercial TV station LNK claimed that Lithuania’s Foreign Minister’s resignation letter will land on the President Grybauskaite’s desk tomorrow, 20 January.
According to the report, the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius who is scheduled to meet the President tomorrow will bring the letter.  Presidential Spokesperson Linas Balsys said to BNS, &#8220;In response to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign affairs is facing dismissal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuanian Foreign Minister, a career diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas will loose his post sooner than anticipated.  According to the Lietuvos rytas daily sources, the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius has run out of options of defending the Minister.
This becomes apparent after President Dalia Grybauskaitė has publicly stated that on 13 January that she has never backed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Meeting in Vilnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/01/13/snow-meeting-in-vilnius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that on 14-15 January, an informal meeting of European and North American experts on international and security policy &#8211; politicians, political scientists, diplomats and analysts &#8211; is held in Trakai. The participants of the meeting will address issues of relations between East and West, key strategic challenges that the [...]]]></description>
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