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Military equipment from Belgium and Luxembourg arrived in Lithuania's port city of Klaipėda on Tuesday for use at the Baltic Piranha war games that will take place in Lithuania in October.

Fifty-two Belgian soldiers arrived in Lithuania on Monday, mainly logistics specialists who will prepare to host 270 more troops from Belgium and Luxembourg along with a few dozen pieces of military equipment arriving later this week.

Documents issued by Belgium to citizens of the Baltic states will no longer have records "born in the Soviet Union", Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday.

Belgium opened an honorary consulate in the Lithuanian capital on Monday, appointing businessman Jacques Barbier as honorary consul.

Lithuania opened its third honorary consulate in Belgium in the premises of the Chamber of Industry and Trade in the city of Charleroi on Monday.

During the second half of this year, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will pay visits to ten foreign countries, including Vatican where she will have an audience with Pope Francis.

Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) will open its representative office for the Baltic States in Vilnius in 2016. The government of Flanders has adopted the decision with an aim to engage with a dynamic Baltic region more actively, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.

A company of Belgian troops are scheduled to come to Lithuania for six-week training in September, with a squad of Luxembourgian troops providing back-up, the Lithuanian army told BNS on Monday.

On 13-14 June, more than 500 Lithuanians from Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands participated in Lithuanian sports games “BeNeLux2015” which were held for the tenth time at NATO Headquarters’ Sports Center in Brussels.

On May 28, the Lithuanian Embassy to Belgium together with the Lithuanian community held a symbolic closing evening of the first season of Lithuania's Cultural Centre in Belgium (LCCB).

As Belgium is closing down its embassies in the Baltic states, the country's last ambassador residing in Vilnius, Peter Lescouhier, bid farewell to Lithuanian officials on Tuesday.

Linava, Lithuania’s national haulers' association, on Wednesday staged protests in front of French, Belgian and German embassies in Vilnius in an attempt to turn attention to those countries' laws which, according to haulers, unnecessarily limits their activities.

25th Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence of Lithuania was celebrated in Brussels on March 16. Belgium’s government and business officials, diplomats, representatives from NATO and EU institutions and friends of Lithuania were present at the event.

The Lithuanian Embassy to the Kingdom of Belgium in cooperation with the Lithuanian cultural centre in Belgium organized a literary evening with Lithuanian-American author Rūta Šepetys.

On 16 February, Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the European Union, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Kingdom of Belgium and Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Lithuania to NATO invited Lithuania’s friends to celebrate the Day of Restoration of Lithuania’s Independence.

Lithuania is considering to close its embassy in Belgium, parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Benediktas Juodka said on Wednesday.

At the Lithuanian Embassy in Belgium on Monday, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius presented a Lithuanian Diplomacy Star, the ministry's award of honour, to Belgian citizen Francina Baeten Van den Brande, the founder and head of the Belgian-Lithuanian friendship association.

The Baltic and Benelux countries agree on the need to expand the existing sanctions against Russia by including more people into the blacklist. They also backed the introduction of new sectoral sanctions, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linkevičius said on Wednesday after meeting with his Bal...

New Belgian-manufactured FN SCAR-H PR precision rifles were brought to Lithuania on Monday, the country's Ministry of National Defence said.

This past November, Russia’s Berlin ambassador, Vladimir Grinin, invited two representatives of the surging new party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) for a meeting. According to German news media, Grinin offered the party strategic advice.