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MFA WELCOMES US DECISION ON LITHUANIA CONCERNING PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION Added 2003-05-06 In the “Special 301 Report” of the US Trade Representative bureau announced on 1 May, Lithuania was not included into the priority watch list of intellectual property protection. The countries included into the list may be subject to US trade...
THREE OUT OF FOUR LITHUANIANS SUPPORT COUNTRY’S MEMBERSHIP IN NATO – OPINION POLL Added 2003-05-02 Three out of four inhabitants of Lithuania support the country’s membership in NATO according to the opinion polls conducted in April. As many as 76.2 % of the polled approve of Lithuania’s integration into NATO. 59.5 % of the respondents are...
BALTIC AND FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN PARIS Added 2003-04-30 On 29 April in Paris, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis and his Latvian and Estonian counterparts Sandra Kalniete and Kristiina Ojuland met French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin. The ministers discussed their countries’...
FRANCE GIVES ITS FINAL APPROVAL TO AGREEMENT ON LITHUANIAN DIPLOMATIC MISSION BUILDING Added 2003-04-30 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania received an affirmation from France on the completion of the legal procedures necessary for the agreement between the Lithuanian and French Governments concerning the status of the...
EVALUATING PROGRESS OF ITS RELATIONS WITH OECD POSITIVELY, LITHUANIA HOPES TO BECOME MEMBER OF ORGANISATION – LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Added 2003-04-29 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis met with Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Seiichi Kondo on 28 April 2003 in Paris. During the meeting, the Minister underscored that...
LITHUANIAN-TURKISH COOPERATION ISSUES DISCUSSED IN ANKARA Added 2003-04-29 During political consultations on 28 April in Ankara, the officials of the Lithuanian and Turkish Foreign Ministries discussed the issues of bilateral political, economic and cultural cooperation. State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign...
MEETING BETWEEN LITHUANIAN AND RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS TAKES PLACE IN MOSCOW Added 2003-04-25 On 23 April in Moscow, a meeting between Chief of Lithuanian Diplomacy Antanas Valionis and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov took place. In the meeting, it was stated that a decision acceptable to both sides concerning the order of transit...
SESSION OF LITHUANIAN-RUSSIAN INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION ENDS IN MOSCOW Added 2003-04-23 On 22 April in Moscow, urgent issues of bilateral relations were discussed in the session of the Lithuanian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on bilateral commercial, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation. Chair of the...
FORMER LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT ACCEPTS PROPOSAL TO BECOME UNESCO GOOD WILL AMBASSADOR Added 2003-04-18 UNESCO Secretary General Koichiro Matsuura proposed Valdas Adamkus, who has finished his term of office as President of the Republic of Lithuania, to take the post of UNESCO Ambassador of Good Will for the Knowledge Society. In the field of...
EU GENERAL AFFAIRS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS COUNCIL ADOPTS REGULATIONS ON RUSSIAN CITIZENS’ TRANSIT THROUGH LITHUANIA Added 2003-04-16 On 14 January in Luxemburg the European Union’s General Affairs and External Relations Council adopted regulations establishing specific facilitated transit documents. Regulations set the rules of Russian citizens' transit through the Lithuanian...