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Lithuania, together with other OSCE participating States, invoked the Vienna mechanism on the human rights situation in Georgia Added 2024-12-20 On 20 December, Lithuania, together with 37 other participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), invoked the Vienna mechanism in response to law enforcement and informal groups' violence against protesters, media representatives and opposition figures in Georgia.
Lithuania, together with other OSCE countries, expressed support for the Georgian people and condemned law enforcement violence against them Added 2024-12-19 On 19 December, at the Permanent Council of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Lithuania, together with like-minded countries, expressed support for the people of Georgia, their democratic and Euro-Atlantic aspirations, and strongly condemned the "Georgian Dream" brutal and unjustified violence against them.
OSCE Permanent Council informed about Priorities of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Added 2024-04-26 On 25 April 2024, during a discussion with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), Marija Pejčinović Burić in the Permanent Council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Lithuania outlined to the OSCE participating States the priorities of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, which will start on 17 May 2024.
Independent OSCE Moscow Mechanism experts: Russia uses violence and repression against Ukrainian civilians Added 2024-04-26 On 25 April, the Report under the Moscow Mechanism on violations and abuses of international humanitarian and human rights law, war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of Ukrainian civilians by the Russian Federation was presented at the Permanent Council of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the...
Budrys: Lithuania becomes a heavyweight in managing support for Ukraine Added 2025-07-10 On 10 July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Kęstutis Budrys, participated in the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 in Rome. During the conference, Budrys signed agreements with Ukraine in the fields of education, rehabilitation services for people affected by the war, and the inclusion of young professionals in the public sector.
Added 2025-07-08 On 7 July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Kęstutis Budrys, conferred the honorary award of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania - Lithuania's Diplomacy Star - on Romualda Klicius, former Honorary Consul of Lithuania in the state of Georgia (U.S.A.), and the medal “For Merits at the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service” to Ambassador Valdemaras Sarapinas in Poland.
Added 2025-07-07 Today, on 7 July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Kęstutis Budrys, met with the heads of Lithuania's diplomatic missions, consular offices, and representations to international organizations. This is a traditional annual meeting of the ambassadors of Lithuania, where the achievements of the past year are evaluated and future tasks are discussed.
Added 2025-07-04 Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned the chargé d’affaires ad interim of the Russian Embassy in Lithuania to protest regarding the extremely massive shelling of Ukraine by the Russian military forces. On the night of 3 July, Russia launched 550 combat drones and various missiles across Ukraine.
Added 2025-07-02 On 2 July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Kęstutis Budrys, met with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of Belarus’ democratic forces, and congratulated her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, on his release at the end of June.
Added 2025-06-27 On 26 June, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Kęstutis Budrys, conferred the honorary award of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania - Lithuania's Diplomacy Star - on Professor Nathalie Sylvie Drach-Temam, President of Sorbonne University in Paris, for strengthening Lithuania’s bilateral relations with France.
Added 2025-06-26 On 25th of June, Lithuanian Parliament approved amendments to the Law on the imposition of restrictive measures in view of military aggression against Ukraine (hereinafter – the Law), which provides a legal basis for the imposition of national sanctions against Russia and Belarus in the event that the restrictive measures imposed on the countries in question at the level of the European Union cease to apply, or...
Added 2025-06-25 On 25 June, Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys, who is attending the NATO summit in The Hague, met with German Federal Foreign Minister Johann Wadephulu. The Lithuanian and German foreign ministers discussed bilateral cooperation, the deployment of a German brigade in Lithuania, the security situation in the region, support for Ukraine, sanctions against Russia, the Iran issue, and the situation in the Middle East.
Added 2025-06-25 On 24 June, Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys participated in the NATO-Ukraine Council in The Hague in the format of foreign ministers.
Added 2025-06-25 On 24 June, Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys, who was attending the NATO summit in The Hague, joined Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsakhna in a public diplomacy forum discussion entitled “Making our Societies more Robust, Ready and Resilient.”