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Lithuanian representatives and the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of State discussed possibilities for providing support to Belarus Added 2020-09-25 On 25 September, Lithuania's representatives and the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau at the U.S. Department of State Georg P. Kent discussed the situation in Belarus and...
Linkevičius: Remembering the Holocaust we must do everything we can to prevent this catastrophe from happening again Added 2020-09-24 On 24 September, the diplomatic conference “Beyond Duty – Visas for Life” to mark the Year of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who served as vice-consul in interwar Lithuania, took place at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas. The...
Zananavičius: European leaders must show solidarity with the Belarusian people Added 2020-09-23 On 22 September, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Albinas Zananavičius attended the General Affairs Council in Brussels in the run-up to the special European Council meeting to be held on 1 and 2 October. At their meeting, the EU...
Lithuania holds its first political consultations with the United Arab Emirates Added 2020-09-23 On 22 September, the first political consultations between Lithuanian and United Arab Emirates (UAE) took place in a virtual format. The meeting focused on the issues of bilateral political, economic, legal, and consular cooperation, work within...
Lithuanian Foreign Ministry’s statement on the situation in Belarus Added 2020-09-23 In response to a secretly held self-inauguration of Alexander Lukashenko for the new term of the President of Belarus on 23 September, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania reaffirms that the presidential election held in Belarus on 9...
Regarding the complex cyber-information attack Added 2020-09-23 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that it has not issued a press release claiming that the Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius called on the EU to create European peacekeeping forces and deploy them to Belarus. It is highly...
Linkevičius: We reaffirm our support for multilateralism, as we mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Added 2020-09-22 On 21 September, a high-level event ‘The Future We Want, the UN We Need: Reaffirming our Collective Commitment to Multilateralism’ in New York at the opening of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly marked the 75th anniversary of...
Foreign Vice-Minister Zananavičius: We must tap into the full potential of the green course to strengthen the industrial sectors in the EU Added 2020-09-22 On 20-21 September, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Albinas Zananavičius took part in an informal meeting of EU trade ministers “Open markets and free trade are the driving forces”. Ministers discussed ways how trade policy could...
The first Latvian Ambassador to Lithuania received the Balts' Award in Rīga Added 2020-09-22 On 22 September in Rīga, the Lithuanian and Latvian Foreign Ministers conferred the 2020 Balts' Award on a Latvian diplomat, the first Ambassador of Latvia to Lithuania after the restoration of the country’s independence Alberts Sarkanis.
Lithuania’s Foreign Vice-Minister discussed counter-terrorism with a representative from the U.S. Department of State Added 2020-09-21 On 21 September, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Dalius Čekuolis and the U.S. Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Nathan A. Sales discussed the fight against international terrorism, sanctions against Hezbollah-affiliated...