![]() WorldPresident Dalia Grybauskaitė spoke on the phone with President Giorgi Margvelashvili of Georgia to discuss regional security and preparations for the upcoming NATO Summit which will be held on 4-5 September in Wales. President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov, to discuss the security situation in Ukraine and the European Union, ratification of the association agreement, and implementation of European reforms that are needed for the country's development. Little attention is paid to volunteers, but their tireless and sometimes dangerous work helps to make a difference to the millions of victims of natural and man-made disasters. Every year World Humanitarian Day is held on 19 August to honour the people who dedicate their lives to making a difference. Read on to find out what the EU, the world´s largest humanitarian aid donor, is doing to support their work. On the eve of the NATO Summit in Wales, U.S. President Barack Obama is coming to the Baltic States. On 3 September in Tallinn, President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with U.S. President Barack Obama, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Latvian President Andris Bērziņš will discuss what NATO measures are necessary for ensuring the security of the Baltic countries and for enhancing the region's defense. Lithuania provides humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians affected by the conflict in Gaza2014-08-15, 17:08The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has allocated humanitarian assistance of 30 thousand Euros to the Palestinians affected by the conflict in the Gaza Strip. The funds will be transferred to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which carries out assistance programmes to the Palestinians. Members of the delegation of the Lithuanian Parliament that visited Iran see many unused cooperation opportunities. Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated the President of France on his birthday anniversary2014-08-13, 09:12President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations, both personally and on behalf of the Lithuanian people, to President François Hollande of the French Republic on his 60th birthday. President Barroso: phone calls with President Poroshenko and President Putin on the situation in Ukraine2014-08-12, 14:19President Barroso made separate telephone calls today to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the situation in Ukraine. President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations, on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf, to the President-elect of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The European Union is increasing by an additional €8 million its efforts to contain the spread of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This is the fourth increase of EU assistance for this crisis. It brings the Commission's aid in 2014 to fight the Ebola epidemic, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has just declared a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern", to €11.9 million. In addition, a second "European mobile laboratory" will be deployed in the coming days, most likely to Sierra Leone, to provide essential support to diagnostics and testing. |
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