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On 2-5 March, arms control inspectors of the Lithuanian Armed Forces will take part in an inspection of a specified area in Azerbaijan as part of a Spanish-led inspection team, the press service of the Armed Forces said.

Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA), says that the OSCE PA attitude towards Russia changed considerably during its winter session.

There is no doubt who gained most from the deal reached in Minsk on February 12th to end the conflict in Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a minimum, a frozen conflict will block Ukraine’s progress towards NATO and the EU; and if fighting resumes, the terms of the ceasefire will leave Uk...

News agency TASS reports that Moscow is discontent with what it calls "provocative actions" of Lithuania and supply of military equipment to Ukraine.

As four-way peace talks over the conflict in Ukraine have been ongoing in Minsk, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius believes the main task is to reach an agreement on the control of the international border between Ukraine and Russia.

EU foreign ministers are keen to quickly add names to the Russia blacklist, according to draft document prepared for emergency meeting on 29 January, EUobserver reports.

Russia’s persistent support to separatists has led to the Mariupol tragedy when around 30 civilians were killed and over 90 were injured when the Ukrainian city came under a rocket attack, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United Nations Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė said on Monday.

Lithuanian's Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Raimonda Murmokaitė on Wednesday accused Russia of seeking to legitimize its territorial gains in Ukraine, achieved by separatists after an official truce.

On Wednesday, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, met with US Secretary of State, John Kerry. The two discussed a number of issues during a luncheon meeting, in particular the situation in Ukraine, the recent wave of terrorist violence in Fr...

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday it earmarked 103,584 litas (EUR 30,000) in its additional voluntary contribution to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine.

Currently it seems that the on-going Ukrainian–Russian conflict in the East of Ukraine is drawing to a possible end. However, it looks as if a newly minted ‘frozen conflict’ zone is poised to appear on the world map. While the end of active fighting might seem as a positive development, a ‘frozen co...

On Lithuania's initiative, the foreign ministers of eight countries on Thursday met with Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of Crimean Tatars, and Andrey Yurov, head of the Ukrainian-Russian human rights mission in Crimea, in Switzerland.

Since Russia began its illegal military intervention in Ukraine, Russian officials have accused NATO of a series of provocations, threats and hostile actions stretching back over 25 years. NATO's official webpage nato.int sets out the facts.

Five Lithuanian parliamentarians will go to Chisinau this weekend to observe elections to the Moldovan parliament, the Seimas office said.

Serbia’s Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2015 will strengthen Serbia’s position on the international political arena and give it extra points in integration into the European Union (EU).

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will attend the European Union's (EU) Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday. The main topic on the agenda is the situation in Ukraine.

As military clashes between Ukraine's government forces and pro-Russian separatist fighters in the country's eastern regions intensify, Lithuanian political scientist Kęstutis Girnius says that the situation might become even more dangerous, especially in the run-up to the G20 summit.

In the United Nations Security Council session that addressed the latest developments in Ukraine, on 12 November, Lithuania urged Russia to end an undeclared war against Ukraine.

Ketvirtadienį Seimas pateikimo stadijoje pritarė balsavimo internetu įstatymo projektui, taip atnaujindamas diskusijas apie šio balsavimo būdo reikalingumą ir grėsmes. O atnaujinti diskusiją būtina, nes viešumoje nuolat pasigirsta argumentai, kurie yra ne tik pasenę, bet ir neatitinkantys realybės. ...

The United States condemned in harsh terms the illegitimate elections held on Sunday by Russia-backed separatists in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk, National Security Council Spokesperson Bernadette Meehan described the ‘elections’ as sham.