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LITHUANIA CHAIRS A CONFERENCE ON THE FIFTH PROTOCOL OF UN CONVENTION ON CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS Added 2008-11-10 Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Eduardas Borisovas, began a Lithuanian chairmanship over the second annual conference on the Fifth Protocol on Explosive...
LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE HOLY SEE PRESENTED HIS CREDENTIALS TO THE POPE Added 2008-11-07 On 7 November, at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican, Lithuanian Ambassador to the Holy See Vytautas Ališauskas presented his credentials to Pope Benedict XVI.
UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE ESTIMATES LITHUANIA’S PROGRESS Added 2008-11-07 On 4-5 November in Geneva, Lithuanian report under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment was examined.
TODAY LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY MARKS ITS 90TH ANNIVERSARY Added 2008-11-07 “We remember this day with proper respect and gratitude to all who fought for Lithuania’s freedom, formed the basis of the independent state and defended national interests even during the hardest years of oppression,” indicated Lithuanian...
LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS BY MINISTER P.VAITIEKŪNAS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOREIGN MINISTRY Added 2008-11-07 Dear Colleagues, I would like to congratulate you on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When seen through the perspective of a thousand years of the history of our nation and the state, this date is...
PARTICIPANTS OF THE MILLENNIUM ODYSSEY ARE PROMOTING THE NAME OF LITHUANIA ALL AROUND THE WORLD Added 2008-11-06 On 6 November, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas met with Chairman of the Board of the Yachting Club Ambersail Raimundas Daubaras and its President Paulius Kovas.
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS FURTHER ENLARGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Added 2008-11-06 On 5 November, the European Commission adopted its annual documents on the European Union enlargement: the EU enlargement strategy and regular reports on the progress of Croatia, Turkey and the Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and...
WHY EUROPE MUST KEEP ITS WORD (EUROPEAN VOICE, 6-12 November 2008, Volume 14, No. 41, p.9) Added 2008-11-06 Resuming talks with Russia before it has withdrawn its troops from Georgia would be a disaster. How slow we were to wake up to the first war of the 21st century. How long it took – to the point of indifference – for us to notice the plight of...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: THE EU-RUSSIA RELATIONS CANNOT RETURN TO USUAL TERMS YET Added 2008-11-03 On 3 November during an informal meeting of the European Union Foreign Ministers (Gymnich) in Marseille, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas and the EU heads of diplomacy discussed transatlantic cooperation between the EU and...
STATEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF LITHUANIA Added 2008-10-31 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania declares that the decision adopted by the State Duma of Russian Federation on 29 October to ratify the so-called Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Treaties with Georgia‘s South Ossetia and...