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This week, on 18-22 September, Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis will be attending the events of the high-level week of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the ministry said in a press release.
The European Commission has adopted guidelines that cars with Russian number plates should not be allowed to enter the European Union. Commenting about the guidelines Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jovita Neliupšienė said that cars with Russian number plates would be seized if they enter Lithuan...
On 30-31 August, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis attended an informal meeting of European Union Foreign Affairs Ministers (Gymnich) organised by the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which runs from 1 July to 31 December 2023, reports the MFA.
Chairman of the Labour Party Andrius Mazuronis suggests that labour immigration policy should focus on countries that are similar to Lithuania, such as Belarus, otherwise he fears about national security risks.
On 27 August, a father kidnapped a one-year-old daughter from a mother in Lithuania and crossed a river in a rubber boat to Russia’s Kaliningrad region, where both he and the toddler were detained.
The Parliament of Lithuania on Thursday discussed the outcomes of the Vilnius NATO summit held on 11-12 July and implementation of regional defence plans. Participants of the meeting concluded that Lithuania has to do a lot of homework and should not delay with procurement of weaponry.
Lithuania’s Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas urges politicians to refrain from making pessimistic statements about Ukraine’s transatlantic prospects when talks are still ongoing on the wording of the would-be declaration for the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius.
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says full border closure is not needed at national level yet, after Lithuania tightened its border controls with Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. It would only be considered in the event of a crisis posing a direct threat to national security, h...
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis is attending a two-day meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the ministry reports.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis told French newspaper Le Figaro in an interview published on 1 June that Ukraine must fully defeat Russia so that the latter would not be able to launch another invasion.
Lithuania has blacklisted 15 law enforcement officers of the Russian Federation responsible for the persecution of Russia’s opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Foreign Ministry reports.
Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna attended the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on 22 May, with the focus on continued support to Ukraine and the need for a special tribunal, said the MFA.
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis calls on his counterparts at the European Union’s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council to consider the Belarus sanctions package separately from the exception for Belarusian potash, which has prevented the EU from approving the Belarus targeted sanctions for half a ye...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrat party (TS-LKD), supports Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė who vows to resign if parliament fails to declare a snap election. The TS-LKD presidium recommended to its party to initiate early p...
On Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis will participate in the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis says even though Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has lasted for more than a year, some Lithuanian politicians still differently assess the threat posed by Russia. According to him, this leads to a difference in opinions on how quick decisions should be...
Šiuo metu Ukrainos ginkluotosios pajėgos turi pajėgumų pulti ir vykdyti puolimo operacijas, o rusai galiausiai turės ką nors daryti iš derybų pozicijų, nes jie nelaimės. Tai interviu „Foreign Affairs“ pareiškė JAV Jungtinio štabų vadų komiteto pirmininkas generolas Markas A. Milley , pranešė „Ukrinf...
On 15 September, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis visited Riga, Latvia, where he met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs, said the MFA.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis, who on Wednesday met with other foreign ministers of Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) countries in Kaunas, says the war launched by Russia against Ukraine is not going great for Russia and Ukraine can de-occupy territories.
Evaluating the Government’s performance so far, President Gitanas Nausėda said in an interview to Defli TV on Wednesday that some of the ministers are more noticed for scandals and misunderstandings than for their accomplishments.
Taivano prezidentė Tsai Ing-wen antradienį publikuotame straipsnyje įspėjo apie „katastrofiškas pasekmes“, jei sala atiteks Kinijai, ir pažadėjo „padaryti viską“, kad apsaugotų ją nuo grėsmių.
As tanks exploded and refugees fled in the latest round of Armenia and Azerbaijian’s war over Nagorno-Karabakh, social media became another battlefield—with some surprising participants. That included the local branch of McDonald’s, which posted some ardently (and brief-lived) pro-Azeri sentiments o...
A third package of EU sanctions against the Minsk regime is inevitable, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda's chief foreign policy advisor has said.
Protesters demanding a free election in Belarus are no longer the opposition, they are the majority, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the former Belarusian opposition presidential candidates, says, adding that there's an ongoing peaceful democratic revolution in Belarus.
Lithuanian MEP Petras Austrevicius says he could not travel to Belarus and his Polish counterpart Robert Biedron was deported from Minsk.
Lyra Puisyte-Bostroem, the head of the Protocol Division at the Lithuanian presidential office, is proposed for the country's ambassador to Spain.
Nepriklausomybės dieną JAV pasitiko masiniais protestais prieš rasizmą, sunkumais valdant COVID-19 pandemiją, amerikiečių nusivylimu savo šalimi ir nerimu dėl artėjančių JAV prezidento rinkimų.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday called on the Lithuanian government not to ratify the European Union's cooperation agreement with Cuba.
Russia continues to violate the Minsk Agreements, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs says in response to the recent flare-up of the situation in eastern Ukraine.
The Senate of the United States has approved the appointment of Robert Gilchrist as the new ambassador to Lithuania.
