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The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry has provided 50,000 euros in humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

The names and places associated with the atrocities that stain the world’s recent history are only too well known: Guernica, Babi Yar, Sharpeville, Treblinka, Hiroshima, Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica and, more recently, Aleppo and Yemen, to name but a few. The memories of those who have suffered are a...

Lithuania will raise its contingent in the United Nations (UN) mission in Mali to nearly 40 troops from October from the current number of five, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

Russia's leadership is unable to curb its hatred towards the Western world, President Dalia Grybauskaite said in her address to world leaders at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

President Dalia Grybauskaite met with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres as part of her visit in New York and discussed the Zapad military exercise currently held in Russia and Belarus.

President Dalia Grybauskaite on Sunday left for New York to attend a session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which will bring together more than 100 head of states and governments to discuss international issues.

Lithuania plans to increase its contribution to international operations by around 30 percent, the president's office said on Monday as the State Defense Council held a meeting.

A unit of Lithuanian troops is readying for a mission in Africa – they will join the United Nations (UN) mission in Mali, western Africa, in October where the international community aims to curb Islamic fighters.

Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, the European Union's (EU) ambassador to Russia, says he will shortly end his diplomatic service in Moscow and engage in analytical work and politics upon return to Lithuania, listing the demographic crisis as the key challenge in his home country.

Lithuania was among a few countries to support Britain in its territorial dispute with the Indian Ocean country of Mauritius at the United Nations.

Twelve troops of the Lithuanian Armed Forces' 2nd Ship Maintenance Group are leaving for southern and central part of the Mediterranean Sea on Friday to join the European Union's (EU) military operation Sophia.

Lithuania has expressed support to Poland running for the United Nations Security Council, Foreign Ministry said on Thursday after consultations between UN departments of both countries.

European governments must prepare to deal with new flows of migrants who will leave their countries because of climate change in the search for drinking water and food, a high-ranking United Nations official, on a visit to Lithuania, said in an interview with BNS.

A Canadian photographer has spent 14 years travelling across what used to be the Soviet Union and taking pictures of bus stops which he says are fascinating and under-appreciated moments of creative flight.

В рейтинге ООН по уровню развития электронного правительства (United Nations E-Government Survey 2016) Литва оказалась на 23-м месте из 193.

Генеральный секретарь ООН Пан Ги Мун призвал все конфликтующие стороны объявить олимпийское перемирие, сложить оружие и забыть о разногласиях на время проведения летних Олимпийских игр в Рио-де-Жанейро.

Gintė Damusytė, a Lithuanian diplomat, has been proposed as the country's new ambassador to Denmark and Iceland. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Vyriausybė Lietuvos ambasadore Danijoje ir Islandijai siūlo skirti diplomatę Gintę Bernadetą Damušis. Prezidentei pritarus G. B. Damušis pareigas pradėtų eiti nuo rugpjūčio 12 dienos.