FOREIGN MINISTER URGES LITHUANIAN INSTITUTIONS TO APPLY FOR PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN GHOR PROVINCE OF AFGHANISTAN
Added 2007-01-16
On 16 January during the second meeting of the Coordination Commission for Euro-Atlantic Security Policy Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas urged the members of the Commission to deliberate on the forms and spheres where...
GLOBAL AND EUROPEAN CHALLENGES FOR THE FOREIGN POLICY OF LITHUANIA – THE CASE OF ENERGY SECURITY (Foreign Policy in Dialogue, Vol. 8, No. 20, January 11, 2007)
Added 2007-01-11
The role of small nations in international politics should not be underestimated. Commitment to the principles of cooperation, transparency and broader institutional regulation is typically the strong point of the small. Lithuania is no exception...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: TODAY EUROPE NEEDS AMBITIOUS EUROPEAN ENERGY POLICY
Added 2007-01-11
On 10 January European Commission put forward an integrated set of proposals to tackle climate change, create EU internal energy market and strengthen external energy policy.
LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR PRESENTED CREDENTIALS TO THE HEREDITARY PRINCE OF LIECHTENSTEIN
Added 2007-01-10
On 9 January Lithuanian Ambassador Giedrius Puodžiūnas residing in Austria presented credentials to Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein.
In course of the conversation Prince Alois marked that Lithuania had made a great progress in a rather...
FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES ROMANIA AND BULGARIA ON ACCESSION TO THE EU
Added 2007-01-03
On 3 January Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas sent letters to Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin and Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu to congratulate them on these countries’ accession to the European...
IN THE FORMER CRADLE OF YIDDISH, MAMA LOSHEN STILL SPEAKS TO HEART (JTA, January 2, 2007)
Added 2007-01-02
VILNIUS, Lithuania, Jan. 2 (JTA) — The blonde pianist enters the stage first, followed by a goateed, serious-looking young opera singer, Rafailas Karpis. Hands clasped above his bright yellow tie, he belts out five songs in Yiddish, odes to love...
LITHUANIA READY TO STRENGTHEN ITS ECONOMIC STRATEGY (Jūra.Mоре.Sea, № 6/2006)
Added 2006-12-29
The international business magazine JURA MOPE SEA talks with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Petras Vaitiekunas, whose inauguration to lead the ministry coincided with the complicated international political situation caused by...
DIPLOMATS CONTINUE DIALOGUE WITH LITHUANIAN MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Added 2006-12-27
On 22 December Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas met with the Members of the European Parliament elected in Lithuania and discussed important issues of the European Union agenda included in the programme of German EU...
MOLDOVAN FOUNDATION FOR CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY APPRAISED LITHUANIA’S SUPPORT
Added 2006-12-27
On 22 December in Chisinau Moldovan non-governmental organisation Foundation for Christian Democracy gave annual award “Golden Heart 2006” to Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas.
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSED WITH ACADEMIC COMMUNITY LITHUANIA’S READINESS FOR EU PRESIDENCY
Added 2006-12-22
On 22 December Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Petras Vaitiekūnas invited representatives of Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University to contribute to preparations for the European Union’s Presidency...