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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...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS RUSSIAN FIRST DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Added 2004-03-04 On 3 March in Vilnius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis met with First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Eleonora Mitrofanova, currently coordinating cultural cooperation, UNESCO and ties with the...
FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS MALTA’S TOP OFFICIALS Added 2004-03-03 On 2 March, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis who was on an official visit to the Republic of Malta, met with the country’s Acting President George Hyzler, Prime Minister Edward Fenech Adami, Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Borg and...
LITHUANIA INVITED TO JOIN NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY Added 2004-03-02 On 1 March, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs received a letter by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, inviting Lithuania to accede to the North Atlantic Treaty. As the letter reads, all the 19 present NATO member states...
ITALIAN CITIZENS AWARDED FOR CONTRIBUTING TO DEVELOPMENT OF LITHUANIAN-ITALIAN RELATIONS Added 2004-03-02 On 1 March at the Lithuanian Embassy in Rome, a solemn ceremony of presenting Lithuanian State awards to the meritorious citizens of the Italian Republic took place. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis who was on a visit in Italy...