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The Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations together with non-governmental organizations in the margins of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 11 December held a round-table discussion on the role of the International Criminal Court ...
The Vilnius-based Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI) presented its annual human rights award to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius. The award is presented on the international Human Rights Day, 10 December.
Corruption is everyone's personal enemy, and a principled position as well civil and political will can help fight it, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.
On 5 December, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas and his delegation is visiting Lithuanian military personnel serving in the multinational mission in Afghanistan, the Ministry of National Defence informs.
The Resolution on Combating Glorification of Nazism and Other Contemporary Forms of Racism put forward by the Russian Federation was adopted by voting on 21 November 2014 at the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, 115 states voting for, 3 against, and 55 abstaining. Lithuania as ...
Lithuania does not agree with unilateral recognition of Palestine, saying a decision needs to be reached by way of negotiations, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius stated on Monday.
Lithuania will vote against the Russia-proposed resolution at the United Nations (UN) that aims to downplay the history of the Baltic states and justify aggression under the disguise of anti-Nazi efforts, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says.
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.
Last Tuesday, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Francis Gurry gave a lecture to a packed auditorium of Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) students discussing competition, access to knowledge and the role of libraries in the future.
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.
For the first time Lithuania has been elected to the Council of International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a specialized organization of the United Nations.
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.
Russia's Murmansk court on Thursday reduced the bail for the release of the arrested Lithuanian fishing vessel Jūros Vilkas (Sea Wolf) three times, from 113 million roubles to 36.6 million rubles (EUR 2.1m to 0.7m), lawyer for the shipowner Vladimir Odiagailo confirmed to BNS.
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...
Fishing vessel Jūros Vilkas (Sea Wolf), which was detained by the Russian authorities last month, could be bailed out for EUR 2.25 million, the company's lawyer Vladimir Odiagailo confirms.
Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday called on the Government of Israel to stop the expansion of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Global peace is not a self-evident fact but common responsibility of all countries, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said in her speech at the general debate of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
