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LITHUANIAN AND LATVIAN PRIME MINISTERS DISCUSS GEORGIA AND ENERGY SECURITY Added 2008-08-28  Earlier today, Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas has had a telephone conversation with his Latvian counterpart Ivars Godmanis.The Prime Ministers have discussed the latest developments in Georgia as well as the September European Council...
STATEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Added 2008-08-21 Lithuania considers the release of all political prisoners in Belarus as a serious sign to the Euro-Atlantic community and will seek to initiate a discussion with its partners in the European Union. The discussion would be on the respective means...
NATO FOREIGN MINISTERS EXPRESSED THEIR FIRM SUPPORT TO GEORGIA Added 2008-08-19      On 19 August, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas attended an extraordinary North Atlantic Council meeting, where he and other NATO Foreign Ministers discussed the situation in Georgia. Ministers...
CTV INTERVIEW ON GEORGIA WITH LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR TO CANADA Added 2008-08-18 For CTV interview on Georgia with Lithuanian ambassador to Canada Ginte Damusis (August 15, 2008) please click here.
REGARDING THE SITUATION IN GEORGIA Added 2008-08-08 According to the latest data, in the morning of 8 August shelling in the area and the city of Gori began and it is possible that this is even done not by the Ossetia forces. This information was confirmed to the Lithuanian Embassy in Tbilisi by...
COMMENT BY THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Added 2008-08-08 After a phone call from Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili to President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus on 7 August and Georgia’s request to help informing the European Union about the current situation in South Ossetia, prompt action was taken...
LITHUANIA ELECTED TO THE COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION Added 2008-08-07 On 6 August in Geneva (Switzerland), during the 24th congress of the Universal Postal Union, Lithuania was elected to the Council of Administration of the Universal Postal Union.  Representatives from Lithuania in the Council of...
THE EUROPEAN UNION DEDICATED ATTENTION TO AFGHANISTAN’S GHOR PROVINCE, WHICH IS SUPPORTED BY LITHUANIA Added 2008-08-07 Ghor Province in Afghanistan received attention ofrepresentatives from the European Commission and the European Parliament last week. Lithuanianmission with Lithuanian soldiers and civilians, aiming at restoring peaceful life, is deployed in this...
FLOODED UKRAINE ASKS FOR HELP Added 2008-07-30 On 30 July, Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laimonas Talat-Kelpša received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Ihor Prokopchuk and expressed condolences regarding the casualties of the flood in Ukraine...
DAY OF THE STATE CONCERT IN OTTAWA Added 2008-07-08    On July 7th, 2008 Embassy of Lithuania in cooperation with Canadian-Lithuanian Community in Ottawa held a concert to celabrate Day of the State of Lithuania (King Mindaugas Coronation Day ). A number of guests including Parliament...