WorldPresident Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf to President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović of the Republic of Croatia on Independence Day. President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is on an official visit in Switzerland, met with Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga to discuss European and national security, the refugee crisis and cooperation between Lithuania and Switzerland in science and business. On 1 October in New York, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully signed a bilateral working holiday agreement, which will allow young people of both countries to study and gain work experience abroad. Two new brutal attacks, two acts of terror have targeted Israelis in Jerusalem last night and early this morning. Two men died in the first attack and a woman and her two year old child were injured. A teenager was wounded in the second attack. The Commission deplores the death of several people in the bombing of an MSF-run hospital in Kunduz2015-10-04, 10:55Commissioner Stylianides expresses condolences to the families of the victims affected by the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz earlier today and calls on all parties to the conflict to respect international humanitarian law and protect medical facilities. On 1 October, Croatia officially announced its decision to open an Embassy in Vilnius by the end of this year. EU-UNICEF: Safer learning for more than 2 million children caught in Syrian conflict2015-10-02, 12:56More than 2 million children whose lives have been torn apart by the conflict in Syria will have better access to education in safe environments through an agreement signed today by the European Union (EU) and UNICEF. The European Union Provides Additional €30 million to Support Palestine Refugees through United Nations Relief and Works Agency2015-10-01, 14:05In the context of the efforts to help addressing the plight of the refugees in the wider Middle East region, the European Union (EU) announced that it will support Palestine refugees with fresh funding totalling € 30 million. Germany, Belgium and Italy should get over €14.6 million in EU aid to help more than 7,300 workers made redundant by three firms get back on to the job market, following a vote by the budgets committee on Tuesday. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid still needs to be approved by Parliament as a whole and by the Council of the EU. "Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, we have taken in 2,5 million Syrian citizens"2015-09-29, 12:14Parliament's Committee of Foreign affairs held an exchange of views with Mohammed bin Amin Al-Jefri, Deputy Speaker of the Majlis Al-Shura, the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia in Brussels this Monday September 28. The situation in Saudi Arabia and the region as well as the migration crisis centering on Syria and relations between the kingdom and the european Union were discussed. |
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