World"China-EU relations are 40 years old and deserve the highest level of support and ambition," tweeted EP President Martin Schulz after meeting Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing. Schulz is in China until Wednesday for a three-day official visit to discuss furthering cooperation between the EU and China, especially at the parliamentary level. Lithuania and Oman launch negotiations over investment promotion and mutual protection agreement2015-03-17, 15:55Negotiations between Lithuania and Oman on bilateral investment promotion and mutual protection agreement have entered the second stage. Representatives of the two countries are meeting in Vilnius on 16-18 March 2015. Parliamentary responses to radical change in the EU's eastern neighbourhood, driven by Russian aggression in Ukraine but also by EU association deals with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, will be debated by MEPs and Eastern Partnership countries' MPs at the fourth ordinary session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly in Yerevan, Armenia, this week. EU Justice and Home Affairs Council agrees to strengthen surveillance at external borders2015-03-15, 14:42During a meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Brussels on Thursday, ministers agreed to strengthen surveillance at external borders and to reinforce the resources and the operational capacities of FRONTEX. The Venezuelan authorities must immediately release all peaceful protesters, students and opposition leaders arbitrarily detained for exercising their right to freedom of expression and fundamental rights, Parliament said in a vote on Thursday. The government must also put an end to the political persecution and repression of the democratic opposition, it added. Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Andrius Krivas on his visit to Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk on March 9-11 discussed Ukraine's security situation, the reform agenda and NATO-Ukraine cooperation. Parliament passed three resolutions on Thursday: strongly condemning the practice of land grabbing in Tanzania; asking member states to take proactive action to counter the expansion of Da'esh beyond Syria and Iraq; and calling on all sides in South Sudan to form a transitional government of national unity. On 9 March 2015, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius during his official visit to the United States met with US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss strategic partnership of the two countries. Lithuania at UN Security Council: an attempt by Russian-backed armed groups to seize additional territory will be obvious breach of the Minsk Agreements2015-03-09, 15:47"The people of Ukraine have heard enough talk by the international community. The time has come to walk the talk. Russia has caused and sponsored this war, and it remains in Russia's hands to put an end to this war," said Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė on March 6, at the UN Security Council Briefing convened at the request of Lithuania. Mogherini calls on EU members to come together to solve problem matters in the southern and eastern neighborhoods2015-03-08, 12:37European Union members must work together to help solve problem matters in the bloc's southern and eastern neighborhoods, as the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini said during the Interparliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defense Policy. |
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