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LITHUANIA HAS ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES Added 2007-02-06 On 5 February in New York Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the UN Dalius Čekuolis and Permanent Representative to the UN of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Margaret Hughes Ferrari signed on behalf of their governments a bilateral protocol...
NEW HEAD OF LITHUANIA’S SPECIAL MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN APPOINTED Added 2007-02-05 On 2 February Birutė Abraitienė,  a diplomat of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign  Affairs, left to Ghor province of Afghanistan to head Lithuanian Special Mission in Chagcharan.
GEORGIA SUPPORTS LITHUANIA’S ASPIRATION TO CHAIR THE ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE IN 2010 Added 2007-02-02 On 2 February in Tbilisi Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas had a bilateral meeting with Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gela Bezhuashvili and discussed the issues of bilateral relations and planned multilateral events...
THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DISCUSSED IN GERMANY Added 2007-02-02 On 1 February during consultations in Germany Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Žygimantas Pavilionis discussed the future of the EU Constitutional Treaty and the Berlin Declaration marking the 50th anniversary of the Treaty...
CLOSER COOPERATION BETWEEN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL AND THE UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION IS PURSUED Added 2007-02-01 On 31 January at the UN Security Council meeting Dalius Čekuolis, the President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations presented the role of the ECOSOC in restoration of peace and...
LITHUANIA AND POLAND STRENGTHEN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP Added 2007-01-31 On 30 January Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas met with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Fotyga who came on her first official visit to Lithuania and discussed Lithuanian-Polish cooperation projects of major...
LITHUANIA STRIVES TO GAIN MAXIMUM SUPPORT TO ITS CANDIDACY FOR THE POST OF CHAIRMAN OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE Added 2007-01-29 Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laimonas Talat-Kelpša met Belarusian Ambassador to Lithuania Vladimir Drazhin and asked to support Lithuania’s candidacy for the post of chairman of the Organization for Security and...
DISCUSSIONS ON THE EUROPEAN UNION’S CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY IN MADRID Added 2007-01-29 On 26 January Lithuania together with other seventeen states that had already ratified the European Union’s Constitutional Treaty discussed how to reach a turning point in negotiations on the future of the European Constitution.
NATO SUCCESS IN AFGHANISTAN DEPENDS ON ALLIES’ ABILITIES TO CONCENTRATE IN THE MOST DIFFICULT PLACES OF THE OPERATION Added 2007-01-29 On 26 January at the informal meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas continued discussions on NATO’s operations in Afghanistan and Kosovo.
ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE TO LITHUANIAN CARRIERS WERE DISCUSSED IN THE FOREIGN MINISTRY Added 2007-01-26 On 25 January Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas discussed with the heads of  the Lithuanian National Road Carriers’ Association ‘Linava’ and carriers’ representatives Latvian Government’s decision of October 2006 that...