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Lithuania elected Vice-Chair of UNESCO Executive Board Added 2015-11-23 During the first session of UNESCO’s new Executive Board in Paris today, Lithuania was elected Vice-Chair of this governing body. Lithuania’s Ambassador to UNESCO Arūnas Gelūnas will represent Lithuania in the Executive Board.
Lithuania and other EU member states did not support Russia’s resolution at UN Added 2015-11-20 Lithuania as well as other EU Member States have abstained in the vote on a draft resolution on Combating glorification of Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism at the Third Committee of the...
Lithuanian and Swedish Foreign Ministers voice support for reforms in Ukraine Added 2015-11-18 On 17 November, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Margot Wallström paid a joint visit to Ukraine and met with the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who thanked the...
Lithuania and Sweden to help schools in eastern Ukraine Added 2015-11-18 On 17 November in Kyiv, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Margot Wallström signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support educational institutions in eastern Ukraine. The...
Lithuania elected as member of UNESCO’s Executive Board Added 2015-11-12 Today, the 38th session of the General Conference of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) in Paris elected Lithuania (171 votes) as a member of the Executive Council for the period 2015–2019.
Lithuanian Ambassador presents her letters of credence to Director-General of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Added 2015-11-09 On 6 November, the Ambassador of Lithuania in Italy Jolanta Balčiūnienė presented her letters of credence to the Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) José Graziano da Silva.
At United Nations, Lithuania calls to end impunity for crimes against journalists Added 2015-11-03 The Permanent Missions of Lithuania and Greece together with UNESCO organized an interactive Panel discussion on “Ending impunity for crimes against journalists: putting resolutions into practice” on the occasion of the International Day to End...
U.S. gives more attention to Eastern Europe, says Linkevičius Added 2015-11-03 On 2 November in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius welcomed the participants of the roundtable discussion ‘Transatlantic Renewal’ and thanked them for their effort to develop the vision of a free and united...
Officials sign Council of Europe Convention on Laundering and Financing of Terrorism Added 2015-10-28 On 28 October, the Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the Council of Europe, Ambassador Laima Jurevičienė and the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni signed the Council of Europe Convention on...
UN Directors of the Baltic States and Germany met in Vilnius Added 2015-10-26 UN Directors of the Baltic States and Germany met in Vilnius on October 26 to exchange views on main issues of the UN and international agenda.