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Eight members of the Seimas and Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis met with the Dalai Lama in Vilnius on Thursday morning.

Members of the Lithuanian parliament's Provisional Group for Solidarity with Tibetans intend to meet with the Dalai Lama during his visit to Lithuania in June, but the country's top officials do not plan to do so.

MEP Petras Auštrevičius will be proposed as the Lithuanian Liberal Movement's candidate for the 2019 presidential elections.

Lithuanian MEP Valentinas Mazuronis who intends to run as an independent candidate for the 2019 presidential elections says his program is built on the idea of national spirit.

Lithuania's former diplomats Vygaudas Ušackas and Žygimantas Pavilionis on Friday confirmed plans of running for early elections of the conservative party that will pick its candidate for president.

Amendments have been registered at the Lithuanian parliament to allow the Vilnius-based European Humanities University (EHU) to continue its operations in Vilnius regardless of the negative expert conclusions.

The opposition Lithuanian Liberal Movement is choosing is candidate to run for Lithuanian president next year from among seven members of the party and expects to name him by April.

Since 2011, The Lithuanian Embassy in London along with other organisations have been running the Litvak days. Litvak Days is essentially a celebration and teaching of the impact of Lithuanian Jews on society, including subjects such as architecture, music, culture and arts in general.

The 17th National Prayer Breakfast is held in Vilnius on Monday, this year inviting participants to think about peace.

Lithuania's new ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irena Vaišvilaitė has handed letters of credence to the organization's Director General Irina Bokova.

On April 25, 2017, the Sugihara Group for Kaunas-Japan Relations Development was established. Soon to be approved by decree of the Mayor of Kaunas, the main purpose of the group is to bring together a wide range of organisations and Kaunas residents who together contribute towards positive relations...

Lithuania's parliament last week established a group for national minority policies, naming it May 3 Group in honor of the historic legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

During the first session of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture's (UNESCO) new Executive Board in Paris on 20 November, Lithuania was elected vice-chair of this governing body. Lithuania's Ambassador to UNESCO Arūnas Gelūnas will represent Lithuania in the Executive Bo...

Lithuanian political scientists, journalists and politicians comment on the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris which left at least 129 people dead.

Wednesday's terror attack in Paris will rekindle discussions on journalists' safety, says Lithuanian Ambassador to UNESCO Arūnas Gelūnas.