Diplomacy

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says the West must immediately tighten sanctions against Tehran after the weekend’s attack on Israel by Iran.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis does not rule out that China stopped issuing visas to Lithuanian citizens in retaliation for a parliamentary delegation visiting Taiwan.

We will overcome one obstacle after another, be it technical, political or otherwise, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, referring to Ukraine's EU membership, which was opposed by European leaders. With experts talking about declining Western arms support for the war-torn country, Ukrain...

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has met with Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi of Indonesia, the ministry reports.

Today, on 29 August, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis met with heads of 63 Lithuanian diplomatic missions, consular posts and representations to international organisations, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

JAV Energijos informacijos administracija pateikė prognozę, kad pasaulinis energijos naudojimas 2040 metais bus beveik 50 proc. didesnis, nei buvo 2012 m. Ilgiau nei pusę dešimtmečio tyrėjai iš NASA ir Pentagono svarstė, kaip saulės elementai galėtų padėti patenkinti šį poreikį ir sumąstė kelis gali...

Lithuania's government on Wednesday agreed to recall Ambassador Evaldas Ignatavičius from Belarus as of July 11. He should be replaced by Andrius Pulokas, director of the Foreign Ministry's Consular Department.

In a city as big as Berlin traffic violations are to be expected. Berliners are particularly annoyed, however, when traffic violations go unpunished, that is, when they are committed by diplomatic staff of foreign embassies in Berlin. Lithuanian diplomats are among the top-ten violators of traffic r...

„Muzikos salę“, kuri vasario 25 – 28 dienomis įsikurs Tarptautinėje Vilniaus knygų mugėje, aplankys ir pasaulinės muzikos rinkos ekspertai. Iš Jungtinių Amerikos Valstijų, Didžiosios Britanijos, Vokietijos ir Liuksemburgo atvyksiantys svečiai susitiks su Lietuvos muzikos industrijos atstovais kalbėt...

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accepted letters of credence from Hungarian Ambassador Zoltan Jancsi.

Croatia is to open an embassy in Vilnius by the end of this year, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

This time I decided to take a closer analytic look and find an answer which becomes more and more important both in Lithuania and the Western countries when speaking about Kremlin’s aggressive actions.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from Greek Ambassador Iraklis Asteriadis on Tuesday. The president and the ambassador discussed cooperation between Lithuania and Greece within the European Union as well as other topical bilateral issues, the presidential press service said.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from Honduran Ambassador Roberto Flores Bermudez, the presidential press service said.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has presented letters of credence to Rolandas Kriščiūnas, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America, the presidency reports.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday handed letters of credence to Sigutė Jakštonytė, the country's first ambassador to the Republic of South Africa.

Diplomats cannot be "faceless" and personalities should represent Lithuania, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said during a Wednesday meeting with Lithuanian ambassadors residing in foreign countries.

Ambassadors do not pop up out of the blue and, for Marius Janukonis, Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine, the journey has been, he says, “a natural course of the diplomatic career”. But landing a diplomatic post in a country like Ukraine is obviously “a big challenge”, he agrees.

Following a very busy Sunday of activities with the Lithuanian community in Los Angeles, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevičius, formally opened the new Lithuanian Consulate General in Los Angeles.