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FOREIGN MINISTER PARTICIPATES IN SEMINAR ON NORDIC-LITHUANIAN COOPERATION Added 2003-06-13 On 12 June Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis presented Lithuania’s economic achievements and investment possibilities at the seminar “Nordic Research and Innovation Cooperation with Lithuania”. The Minister indicated that the...
MEETING ON OECD TAKES PLACE IN FOREIGN MINISTRY Added 2003-06-13 On 11 June in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), a discussion on activities of Lithuania in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) took place on the initiative of Lithuanian diplomats. Representatives from the...
BALTIC COOPERATION ISSUES DISCUSSED IN VILNIUS Added 2003-06-10 At the session of the Baltic Council on 9 June in Vilnius, the Foreign Ministers of the three Baltic States and the members of the Baltic Assembly Presidium exchanged their opinions on the trilateral model of the interparliamentary and...
FOREIGN MINISTER WELCOMES RESULTS OF EU REFERENDUM IN POLAND Added 2003-06-10 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Antanas Valionis welcomed the results of the Polish EU referendum of 7-8 June showing that the country’s population approved its membership in the European Union. “We congratulate Poland...
LITHUANIA EXPRESSES CONCERN REGARDING LATVIA’S DECISION TO LIMIT PORK IMPORT Added 2003-06-09 On 5 June, the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia adopted the law on introduction of domestic pork market protection measures safeguarding the interests of Latvia’s pig breeders by setting tariff quotas and import duties. According to the...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS SPEAKER OF SWEDISH PARLIAMENT Added 2003-06-06 On 6 June, Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis, visiting Sweden to attend Nordic (EU member) and Baltic states Prime ministers’ meeting, met with Speaker of the Swedish Riksdag Bjoern von Sydow. The officials discussed European Convention and...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AT NATO SUMMIT Added 2003-06-04 On 3 June in Madrid at the foreign ministers’ meeting of NATO member states and countries invited to join NATO, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Antanas Valionis discussed the new global security situation and the tasks...
LITHUANIAN REPRESENTATIVE PARTICIPATES IN MEETING TO DISCUSS POSITIONS REGARDING FUTURE EU ISSUES Added 2003-05-30 On May 27-28 in Vienna, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representative of the Lithuanian Government in the European Convention Rytis Martikonis participated in the meeting of nine smaller EU member and acceding countries on EU...
FOREIGN MINISTER WELCOMES LITHUANIAN-RUSSIAN BORDER TREATIES’ RATIFICATION BY RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT Added 2003-05-29 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Antanas Valionis welcomed the decision by the Russian Federation Council to ratify the Lithuanian-Russian treaties on the state border, the exclusive economic zone and delimitation of the...
NEW APPROACH IN REPRESENTING LITHUANIA’S ECONOMIC INTERESTS ABROAD IS REQUIRED - MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Added 2003-05-28 The present-day political and economic development of the world creates the necessity to apply a new approach towards the representation of Lithuania’s interests abroad, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Antanas Valionis...