WorldOn 7 January 2016, the Council appointed Mr Kęstutis Lančinskas, a senior Lithuanian police official, as head of the European Union Advisory Mission Ukraine. Mr Lančinskas will replace Mr Kalman Mizsei and is expected to take up his duties in Kyiv on 1 February 2016. Phone calls between Federica Mogherini and the Foreign Ministers of the Republic of Korea and of Japan2016-01-07, 09:37The High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini spoke this morning with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, Yun Byung-se, and the Foreign Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, following the alleged nuclear test executed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has stated that it carried out a nuclear test this morning. The European Agenda on Migration adopted by the Commission in May 2015 set out the need for a comprehensive approach to migration management. Since then, a number of measures have been introduced – including the adoption of two emergency schemes to relocate 160,000 people in clear need of international protection from the Member States most affected to other EU Member States, and the endorsement of the Commission Action Plan on Return. President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations, on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf, to Johann Schneider-Ammann on assuming the office of the President of the Swiss Confederation. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia carried out 47 executions earlier yesterday. Roughly 700 Lithuanian soldiers will be assigned for standby in NATO and EU rapid response forces in 20162016-01-01, 16:42On 1 January 2016 roughly 700 Lithuanian soldiers with designated infantry equipment and vehicles will begin standby for NATO and EU rapid response forces. Ukraine’s free trade pact with EU to allow Lithuanians to save many millions euros2015-12-31, 14:27The free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Ukraine, which will fully come into force on January 1, 2016, will lower prices for Ukrainian goods in Lithuania and vice versa and will also allow businesses from both countries to save many millions of euros, Deputy Foreign Minister Raimundas Karoblis has said. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed two loans with the Municipality of Budapest: On December 21 deployment ceremony was held for 7 troops leaving for Turkey to take part in NATO's air defence operation called Active Fence as the Deployable Communications and Information Systems Module (DCISM). |
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