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LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DISCUSSES IMPORTANT ISSUES OF EASTERN POLICY IN BRUSSELS Added 2007-03-15 On 15-16 March in Brussels Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas and the heads of Lithuanian diplomatic representations in the Commonwealth of Independent States with EU and NATO officials are discussing the EU and NATO...
NUREMBERG DECLARATION ON AN EU-ASEAN ENHANCED PARTNERSHIP ADOPTED Added 2007-03-15  On 14-15 March the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the European Union and Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was held in Nuremberg, Germany. Lithuania was represented by Lithuanian Ambassador to Germany Evaldas Ignatavičius.
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IS ENCOURAGED TO ADOPT CONCRETE MEASURES FOR ENHANCING THE EXTERNAL EUROPEAN UNION BORDER INFRASTRUCTURE Added 2007-03-14 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is prepared to share the available information on the bilateral Lithuanian-Latvian and European Union legal basis, as well as possibilities of claiming for damages with the members of Lithuanian National Road...
LITHUANIA WELCOMES THE INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP EUROPEAN UNION-AFRICAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP Added 2007-03-14 On 12th-13th of March, in Petersberg, Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laimonas Talat-Kelpša took part in the informal meeting of  the EU Development Ministers, where they discussed the principles of division of labour...
LITHUANIA SPEAKS UP FOR THE CREATION OF EFFECTIVE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Added 2007-03-14 On 14 March Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaroslav Neverovič participated in the 4th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. He made a statement that there was a need to create an efficient Human Rights Council...
LITHUANIA SUPPORTS AND WILL SUPPORT UKRAINE‘S STRIVING FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Added 2007-03-13 On 13 March Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas discussed important issues of bilateral cooperation and Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration goals with the visiting Minister of Defence of  Ukraine Anatoliy Grytsenko.
A SIMPLE APPROACH: DELVE DEEPLY, BUT KEEP IT SIMPLE, IS THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FOREIGN MINISTER (Lithuania in the World, Vol. 15 No.1, 2007, p. 12-15) Added 2007-03-09 When you sit down with Petras Vaitiekūnas, the minister of foreign affairs, you know that you are not in the presence of a glib politician. A 52-year-old father of three, during his career he has held some of the country’s top (and toughest)...
LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DISCUSSED THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER Added 2007-03-08 On 8 March in Brussels Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas met with the European Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who is responsible for external relations, as well as the European Neighbourhood Policy and thanked her for...
LITHUANIA SEEKS TO DEVELOP PRAGMATIC RELATIONS WITH BELARUS Added 2007-03-07 On 7 March the Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laimonas Talat-Kelpša discussed issues of bilateral cooperation and energy transit with Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Yeudachenka, who is currently visiting Vilnius.
LITHUANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONGRATULATED LITHUANIAN REPRESENTATIVE ELECTED MEMBER OF THE UN COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD Added 2007-03-07 On 7 March Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas received Dainius Pūras and congratulated him on becoming member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.