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FOREIGN MINISTER PRESENTS LITHUANIAN EUROPEAN POLICY GUIDELINES Added 2003-01-27 Foreign Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Antanas Valionis made a speech on the euro-integration headway and the work of the Convention on the future of the EU at the plenary session of the Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament) on 23 January. "The...
40th ANNIVERSARY OF ELISÉE TREATY COMMEMORATED Added 2003-01-24 40th ANNIVERSARY OF ELISÉE TREATY COMMEMORATED On 22 January, the 40th anniversary of the Franco-German Treaty on close co-operation signed at the Elisée Palace was marked. "It is symbolic that we are commemorating this anniversary, when the...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS SLOVENIA, CROATIA AND BULGARIA Added 2003-01-20 On January 13 – 17 Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis toured Slovenia, Croatia and Bulgaria on official visits. In Lubliana, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Valionis met with Slovenian Foreign Minister Dmitrij Rupel. At the...
LITHUANIA UNDERTAKES POLITICAL AND MILITARY OBLIGATIONS OF NATO MEMBERSHIP Added 2003-01-15 On 13 January in Brussels, Lithuanian and NATO negotiators deliberated political and military issues of Lithuania’s accession to the Alliance. During the first meeting of negotiators at the Headquarters of NATO, the Lithuanian delegation...
LITHUANIA STARTS NEGOTIATIONS ON ACCESSION TO EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA Added 2003-01-13 On 9 January, a delegation led by Director of the Economics Department of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Romas Švedas launched in Brussels negotiations on Lithuania’s accession to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA)....
TASK OF LITHUANIAN DIPLOMACY FULL USE OF POSSIBILITIES Added 2003-01-08 On 8 December in the Parliament Seimas, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis met with President-Elect Rolandas Paksas and presented the topical issues of foreign affairs. “Thanks to maturity of Lithuanian political forces and consensus...
VISA DIVISION OF CONSULATE-GENERAL ALREADY OPERATES IN GRODNO Added 2003-01-06 The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that Visa Division of the Lithuanian Consulate- General has been operating in Grodno since 30 December 2002. Consular activities are being expanded in Grodno in order to avoid impediments to...
TWO OUT OF THREE INHABITANTS OF LITHUANIA WOULD VOTE IN FAVOUR OF NATO MEMBERSHIP Added 2003-01-03 Almost two thirds of Lithuanian inhabitants would vote in favour of the country’s accession to NATO according to opinion polls conducted in December. If a ballot were to take place, Lithuanian membership in NATO would be supported by 65...
LITHUANIAN MFA WELCOMES OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL’S DECISION TO ENSURE CONTINUITY OF ORGANISATION’S REPRESENTATION IN BELARUS Added 2003-01-02 The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomes the decision of 30 December 2002 by the Permanent Council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe to ensure continuity of this organisation’s representation in Belarus by...
LITHUANIA AND RUSSIA SIGN AGREEMENT ON RECIPROCAL TRAVEL Added 2002-12-31 On 30 December in Moscow, State Secretary of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Chizhov signed a new agreement between the Lithuanian and Russian Governments on reciprocal...