PoliticsOn 12 February 2015, Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius received Israel's new Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon. Minister stressed that the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Vilnius would further strengthen the partnership between Lithuania and Israel and people-to-people contacts. Speaker of the Seimas, Loreta Graužinienė, meets with the newly-appointed Israeli Ambassador2015-02-13, 13:34Speaker of the Seimas, Loreta Graužinienė, has met with Israeli Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon. While welcoming the newly appointed Israel's representative in Lithuania, the Speaker expressed her satisfaction with the opening of the Embassy of the State of Israel in Vilnius. The Speaker highlighted the importance of strengthening bilateral relations between our states and parliaments and solving the issues of mutual concern. The Ministry of Agriculture of Lithuania has addressed milk processors asking to explain the reason behind milk purchase price decrease. Moreover, it also referred to the Competition Council requesting to submit the results of the dairy market analysis. In the margins of the Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 9 February in Brussels, Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs of Linas Linkevičius met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania Bogdan Lucian Aurescu to discuss prospects of closer bilateral relations and multilateral cooperation. At its meeting in the Seimas, the Legal Affairs and Security Committee of the Baltic Assembly discussed the strengthening of cooperation of the Baltic States in the areas of foreign and security policy. The participants of the meeting focused on joint procurements of military equipment, joint trainings of the Baltic States, joint actions and other issues. the European Commission proposes to make 1 billion euro from the Youth Employment Initiative available as early as this year. This change will increase by up to 30 times the pre-financing Member States receive to boost youth employment - reaching up to 650 000 young people and helping them get into work, faster. President Dalia Grybauskaitė, attending the Munich Security Conference, met with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. The meeting focused on regional security issues and the situation in Ukraine. Lithuanian Foreign Minister and Norwegian Ambassador discussed cooperation on children’s rights protection2015-02-07, 12:00On 6 February, Minister Linas Linkevičius and Dag Malmer Halvorsen, Ambassador of Norway to Lithuania, discussed the protection of the rights of Lithuanian citizens in Norway and possible cooperation of the two countries on children's rights protection. Lithuania's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Vilius Martusevicius discussed cooperation opportunities in the area of agriculture with Vladyslava Rutytska, Deputy Minister on European Integration of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Lithuanian, Belarusian deputy MFA discuss further development of EU-Belarus dialogue2015-02-05, 10:15On February 4th 2015, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrius Krivas participated in the consultations in Minsk with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Alena Kupchina. |
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