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MORE FOCUS ON CONFIDENCE-BUILDING MEASURES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION NEEDED, SAYS OSCE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE AT GENEVA DISCUSSIONS Added 2011-12-15 GENEVA, 14 December 2011 – Developing synergies through multiple confidence-building measures and reaching out to different communities can help support efforts towards conflict resolution, said Giedrius Čekuolis, the Special Representative...
IRELAND SET FOR BUMPY RIDE IN OSCE HOT SEAT (IrishTimes, 15 December 2011) Added 2011-12-15 DANIEL McLAUGHLIN in VilniusIRELAND IS preparing to take the helm at the world’s largest regional security organisation amid growing tension between its most powerful members, the United States and Russia.The Organisation for Security and...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SENDS CONDOLENCES OVER THE ARMED ATTACK IN THE BELGIAN CITY OF LIÈGE Added 2011-12-14 On 14 December, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis sent condolences to the Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders over the armed attack in the Belgian city of Liège.
LITHUANIAN OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP CONCLUDES DISCUSSION SERIES WITH SEMINAR ON SECURITY COMMUNITY Added 2011-12-14 The concluding seminar in the “V to V Dialogue” series of expert seminars organized by the Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship began in Kahlenberg, near Vienna, on 14 December 2011. The one-day event, entitled "Towards a Genuine Security...
Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship concludes discussion series with seminar on security community Added 2011-12-14 The concluding seminar in the “V to V Dialogue” series of expert seminars organized by the Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship began in Kahlenberg, near Vienna, on 14 December 2011. The one-day event, entitled "Towards a Genuine Security...
RUSSIA BLOCKS CONSENSUS AT OSCE’S YEAR-END CONFERENCE (Georgian Daily, 14 December 2011) Added 2011-12-14 Vladimir SocorOn December 6-7 in Vilnius, the OSCE’s year-end ministerial conference dramatized this organization’s vulnerability to sabotage by the Kremlin. That vulnerability is inherent in the OSCE’s own structure and modus operandi, which...
SUCCESS OF LITHUANIA’S EU POLICY DEPENDS ON PREPARATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EU AND ON RESPONSE TO DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WIDER ENVIRONMENT Added 2011-12-13 Success of Lithuania’s foreign policy efforts to achieve the objectives set in the European Union depends on important factors of external and domestic policy - the preparation for the Presidency of the Council of the EU, developments in the...
EU SEEKS TO SOOTHE RUSSIAN AGITATION (AFP, 13 December 2011) Added 2011-12-13 BRUSSELS, December 13, 2011. The EU heads into a summit with Russia on Wednesday seeking to calm irritation over European demands to respect the rights of protesters, while also narrowing sharp differences over Syria and Iran.Russian President...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER AND OMAN’S MINISTER DISCUSS POSSIBILITIES FOR BROADER COOPERATION BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES Added 2011-12-13 At the ongoing Fourth United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum in Doha on 13 December, Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė and Oman’s Religious Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah A’Salmi...
VLADIMIR PUTIN'S COLD WAR ELECTION PLOY (Dailymail.co, 13 December 2011) Added 2011-12-13 By Brian DarlingLast week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dared to say that Russian Duma elections on December 4 were 'neither free nor fair.' Clinton was the subject of a withering attack from Russian Prime Minister and presidential...