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IMPORTANT TO LITHUANIA NEGOTIATIONS ON TRADE IN STEEL BETWEEN EU AND RUSSIA COMPLETES Added 2004-03-19 After intense consultations between the representatives of the European Union (EU) and Russia on amendment of the Agreement on Trade in Certain Steel Products, an important compromise was reached, allowing to increase the steel import quotas from...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ACQUAINTS RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR WITH NATO DECISION TO ENSURE BALTIC STATES’ AIR SPACE DEFENCE Added 2004-03-18 On 18 March, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis met with Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Lithuania Boris Tsepov. Minister Valionis acquainted the Russian Ambassador with NATO decision concerning the integrated air...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS EESC PRESIDENT Added 2004-03-18 On 17 March, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis met with President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Roger Briesch and members of his delegation. At the meeting, the role of the EESC in the system of the...
NATO DECIDES TO STATION ITS AIR DEFENCE ASSETS IN LITHUANIA Added 2004-03-17 On 17 March, the North Atlantic Council in Brussels took a political decision regarding the integrated air space defence of the enlarged NATO and authorised the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe to start generating the required assets. It...
LITHUANIA IS DETERMINED TO BE ACTIVE IN CONTRIBUTING TO SECURITY – LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Added 2004-03-17 Eleven Lithuanian political parties agreed on commitment that the expenditure for national defence in 2005-2008 will amount to at least 2 percent of GDP. The “Accord of the Parliamentary Parties of the Republic of Lithuania” signed on 17...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SIGNS ACCESSION TO NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY DOCUMENT Added 2004-03-12 On 12 March, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis signed a document of Lithuania’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty. On 10 March, the Lithuanian Seimas (the Parliament) approved ratification of this treaty opening the...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS AMBASSADORS OF PRESENT AND ACCEDING EU MEMBER STATES Added 2004-03-08 On 8 March, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis met with the ambassadors of present and future EU member states residing in Lithuania to discuss the anti-Semitic articles in the daily “Respublika”. As Antanas Valionis...
LITHUANIAN-MALAYSIAN POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS TAKE PLACE AT LITHUANIAN MFA Added 2004-03-08 On 5 March, the first bilateral political consultations in the history of Lithuania and Malaysia were held at the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Undersecretary of the Lithuanian MFA Evaldas Ignatavičius and Director of the...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PRESENTS LAW ON NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY RATIFICATION TO PARLIAMENT Added 2004-03-05 On 5 March, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis presented the law on ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas). “It is one of the most important international treaties, ever submitted...
LITHUANIA ADHERES TO IMO CONVENTION Added 2004-03-04 On 3 March, Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania in the United Kingdom Aurimas Taurantas met with Secretary General of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Efthimios Mitropoulos and handed the document confirming Lithuania’s adhering...