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IN TWENTY YEARS LITHUANIA HAS EMERGED AS ACTIVE AND RELIABLE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY Added 2011-09-10 President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended a commemorative parliamentary sitting to mark twenty years of the recognition of Lithuanian re-independence and renewed diplomatic relations.
AT THE EU MINISTERS’ MEETING, LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER EMPHASIZES ISSUES OF EU EASTERN PARTNERSHIP, SITUATION IN UKRAINE AND BELARUS Added 2011-09-03 On 2-3 September at the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers (Gymnich), in Sopot, Poland, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs A.Ažubalis focused on the issues of the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative, the situation in Ukraine and...
LITHUANIAN PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION PRESENTED CREDENTIALS TO NATO SECRETARY GENERAL Added 2011-08-30 New Lithuanian ambassador to NATO Mr. Kęstutis Jankauskas presented  credentials to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on the 30th of August 2011.
BARROSO SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT CONCERNING SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW NPPs Added 2011-08-04 President of the European Commission, Jose Manual Barroso, confirmed in a letter to President Dalia Grybauskaitė that the European Commission took into account suggestions made by President Grybauskaitė, urging the European Union to take...
IN DISCUSSIONS ON THE NEW EU FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE LITHUANIAN VICE-MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PRESENTED LITHUANIA‘S PRIORITIES Added 2011-08-01 During an Informal Meeting of Ministers for European Affairs that took place on 28-29 July in Sopot Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Egidijus Meilūnas presented  Lithuania‘s priorities in preparation of the new European...
AUSTRIA’S LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY INCLUDES NO NEW INFORMATION Added 2011-07-22 On the evening of 21 July, a representative from the Embassy of Lithuania in Vienna (Austria) received a letter of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs addressed to foreign ministers of the Baltic States, copies of...
CHALLENGES TO LITHUANIA’S EU MEMBERSHIP: ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, INCREASING OF COMPETITIVENESS AND EU COUNCIL PRESIDENCY Added 2011-07-20 At the public discussion “7 years of Lithuania’s Membership in the European Union: Set to Take the Helm” on 19 July in Vilnius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis identified key challenges of...
AUSTRIA’S HASTY DECISION TO RELEASE THE SUSPECT IN JANUARY 13TH CASE UNDERMINES PRINCIPLE OF EU SOLIDARITY, BALTIC FOREIGN MINISTERS SAY Added 2011-07-19 The hasty decision taken by Austrian authorities to release the suspect in the so-called “January 13th case” diminished the efficient international legal cooperation in criminal cases among EU member states, as well as the principle of...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DREW ATTENTION OF THE EU GENERAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL TO AUSTRIA’S RELEASE OF A SUSPECT IN JANUARY 13TH CASE Added 2011-07-19 At the European Union’s General Affairs Council meeting in the evening of 18 July in Brussels, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis drew the attention of other EU foreign ministers to the actions of the Austrian...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH HIS AUSTRIAN COUNTERPART Added 2011-07-19 On 18 July during the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council and General Affairs Council meetings in Brussels, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis met with Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Michael Spindelegger to...