UN Security Council

Lithuania has reached the half-point in its two-year membership in the United Nations (UN) Security Council. Throughout 2014, the Lithuanian delegation mostly focused on the conflict in Ukraine, the rule of law, protection of civilians in armed conflicts, reinforcement of UN cooperation with the Eur...

The United Nations Security Council, in a 8-2 vote with five abstentions, rejected a resolution on Palestinian statehood which sets a deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian territories by 2017, CNN reports.

At the UN Security Council meeting on Monday, Lithuania called for seeking responsibility for crimes against humanity in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.

In an annual press conference held on 18 December, Linas Linkevičius, Lithuanian minister of foreign affairs, summarized his priority activities of 2014. These included deepening of relations with EU Eastern partners, consistent support to Ukraine, active membership of the UN Security Council and ec...

As a member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, Lithuania intends to get constructively involved in discussions on Palestine's statehood. The Lithuanian government notes, however, that it supports direct talks to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Although international law as a concept of general principles and customs has been known for centuries, reaching as back as Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome, discussions concerning its existence and common application reached its apogee only in the 20th century; however, neither the theoretical discus...

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called Russia "a terrorist state". Moscow retorted by saying that Grybauskaitė should grow out of "communist youth" maximalism. Some extremists at the Russian Duma have even proposed to sever diplomatic relations with Vilnius.

A small episode recently has shown that Russian President Vladimir Putin feels like he is a know-it-all who can ignore his advisory team. It happened in Beijing during the fireworks show for the APEC summit participants.

In the United Nations Security Council session that addressed the latest developments in Ukraine, on 12 November, Lithuania urged Russia to end an undeclared war against Ukraine.

The United Nations (UN) Security Council has adopted the resolution proposed by Lithuania, which suggests extending the European response force peace-keeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Six years ago, when Russia attacked Georgia and tore off the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Western countries were, as always, "very concerned", sent out their observers, provided humanitarian support and Nocolas Sarozy, the then President of France, volunteered to mediate in sett...

The Lithuanian government has issued a statement saying it regrets Russia’s decision to block the adoption by the United Nations Security Council of a press statement on the illegal “elections” in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine to be held by armed separatists on 2 November.

Lithuania's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Raimonda Murmokaitė on Friday called on the international community to condemn the elections being organized by pro-Russian separatists in Donbass, Ukraine, on 2 November.

At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, the Lithuanian ambassador called on Russia to withdraw troops from Ukraine and refrain from actions which would mean a de facto annexation of Abkhazia.

The Ukraine issue must be kept in focus of the international community's attention and the Russian “propaganda machine” must be countered, says Lithuania's Ambassador to the United Nations Raimonda Murmokaitė.

Lithuania torpedoes all constructive international initiatives dedicated to solving the problems in Ukraine - such complaints are heard from the lips of the representatives of Russia with regards to our diplomats in the most influential international organization - the United Nations Security Counci...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius participated at the high-level event over limiting the use of the veto right at the United Nations Security Council in case of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius are attending UN events and bilateral meetings in New York.

On 19 September, at the meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the Lithuanian permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, expressed Lithuania's support for the new government of Iraq and underlined that it had to remain inclusive and represent the interes...

At 19 September meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė urged to respect the memory of the victims of the catastrophe of MH17 and condemned any attempts to influence or interfere with the independent inv...