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Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė met with the newly appointed Irish Ambassador to Lithuania David Robert Noonan who rejoiced at the strong Lithuanian community in Ireland.

The fall session just completed by the Lithuanian parliament is historic, as it adopted a package of laws ensuring Lithuania's accession to the euro area, Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says.

Daiva Raudonienė, 38, has been appointed chancellor of the Seimas of Lithuania for a five-year term. She was previously the head of the Office of the parliamentary Committee on Audit.

On Thursday, the Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) will repeat its vote on the 2015 budget bill, Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė said on Tuesday.

Leader of the Seimas Opposition Andrius Kubilius urges Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė to stop the procedure of signing the law on the budget until the Opposition's statement is examined by the Seimas Commission for Ethics and Procedures.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has criticised the intentions of the Seimas Committee on Human Rights to consider an address by a group of parliament members over former MP Viktor Uspaskich of the Labour Party.

A discussion between the three Baltic countries on going forward with a new nuclear power plant project in Visaginas, Lithuania, will soon move to a political level, Lithuania’s parliamentary speaker has said.

Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that cooperation between the Seimas of Lithuania and the state Duma of Russia is almost non-existent.

Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė has congratulated the newly elected Chairman of the Supreme Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman.

Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė has voiced opposition to proposals of granting the Lithuanian parliament the right to block referendum initiatives from ordinary citizens.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė has refrained from comments on President Dalia Grybauskaitė's strong-worded statements on Russia, noting that the European Union (EU) should speak in one voice on the matter.

Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė agrees that the Lithuanian language should be protected, but says proposals to have foreign companies' names translated into Lithuanian is an exaggeration.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to President Andris Berzins of the Republic of Latvia on the occasion of national holiday - Independence Day, the presidential press service said.

Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament leader of the Labour party Loreta Graužinienė has said that Latvia’s Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, who had come out publicly as gay last week, should have disclosed his sexual orientation prior to assuming the post.

Lithuania has to prepare for holding a referendum on dual citizenship, there is no other way, Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė said in her congratulatory message to the commission of the parliament and the Lithuanian World Community.

Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that the new Director of the Public Procurement Office (VPT) Diana Vilytė is expected to act responsibly.

Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Loreta Graužinienė has welcomed the president's proposal to expand provisions for dual citizenship and underlined that the country's Constitution needs to be amended to stay in touch with the times.

Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she would resign, if she were in the place of Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas, whose former associates were detained amidst corruption investigation on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian delegation, led by Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė, visited South Korea where it met with heads of Samsung Electronics and the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and discussed potential cooperation in trade, industry and business.

A delegation headed by Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė on Sunday left for South Korea on an official visit to search for new markets for Lithuanian commodities.