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L.LINKEVIČIUS INVITES LITHUANIANS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO HOLOCAUST VICTIMS AND REMEMBER PEOPLE WHO SAVED JEWS Added 2014-01-26 On 27 January, Lithuania commemorates the International Holocaust Remembrance day together with the United Nations. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, by preserving the memory of the victims of the Holocaust...
V.LEŠKEVIČIUS AND ICELAND’S NEW AMBASSADOR PLEDGE TO ADVANCE CLOSE RELATIONS BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND ICELAND Added 2014-01-24 On 24 January in Vilnius, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Vytautas Leškevičius met with Iceland’s new Ambassador to Lithuania Kristín Aðalbjörg Árnadóttir, discussed the successful...
EU HAS TO DULY INFORM CITIZENS ABOUT DECISION MAKING PROCESSES, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN VICE-MINISTER SAYS Added 2014-01-24 At the seminar on the relevance of subsidiarity at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague on 23 January, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Vytautas Leškevičius stressed...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SUMMONS UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR TO LITHUANIA Added 2014-01-24 On 23 January, Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ukrainian Ambassador to Lithuania Valeriy Zhovtenko. He was requested to convey to the Ukrainian authorities Lithuania’s position on the recent events in Kyiv, during which...
L.LINKEVIČIUS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF SWEDISH PARLIAMENT DEBATE SECURITY ISSUES, DISCUSS SITUATION IN UKRAINE Added 2014-01-23 On 23 January in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with members of the Committee on Defence of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) and discussed Lithuania’s experience of holding the EU Presidency, the...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SUMMONS UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR TO LITHUANIA Added 2014-01-23 On 23 January, Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ukrainian Ambassador to Lithuania Valeriy Zhovtenko. He was requested to convey to the Ukrainian authorities Lithuania’s position on the recent events in Kyiv, during which...
STATEMENT BY THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA ON THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE Added 2014-01-23 We are deeply shocked by the death of several Euromaidan protesters and many more injured in Ukraine  last night. We express our deepest condolences to the families of victims. We condemn the use of military force and violence both by the...
LITHUANIA INVITED THE OSCE TO OBSERVE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Added 2014-01-23 On 23 January Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania, ambassador Giedrius Čekuolis, in line with Copenhagen commitments, officially invited observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights [ODIHR], OSCE...
L.LINKEVIČIUS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF SWEDISH PARLIAMENT DEBATE SECURITY ISSUES, DISCUSS SITUATION IN UKRAINE Added 2014-01-23 On 23 January in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with members of the Defence Commission of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag)  and discussed Lithuania’s experience of holding the EU...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SUMMONS UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR TO LITHUANIA Added 2014-01-23 On 23 January, Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ukrainian Ambassador to Lithuania Valeriy Zhovtenko. He was requested to convey to the Ukrainian authorities Lithuania’s position on the recent events in Kyiv, during which...