"The accession process will require shared efforts of all institutions. We have some hard work ahead of us. Accountability and responsibility are the key criteria which the Government will demand from every institution according to its competence," Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said after the presentation yesterday.
As reported, on 9 April all member states of the organisation unanimously decided to invite Lithuania to start negotiations over the membership.
OECD membership is one of Lithuania's priorities in its economic foreign policy. Lithuania has been seeking to become a full-fledged member of the OECD since 2002.
Back in May 2013, the OECD Ministerial Council meeting announced its decision on the next phase of the enlargement of the organisation – Lithuania was among other four candidate countries invited to open accession talks.
In 2013, the OECD planned to open talks with Colombia, later other countries were mentioned in the document – Latvia, Lithuania, and Costa Rica.
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.
The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. The organisation works with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change. It measures productivity and global flows of trade and investment. OECD also analyses and compares data to predict future trends, sets international standards on a wide range of things, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals.
