On 20-21 April, the conference NATO and the Indo-Pacific: Forging Deeper Partnerships was held in Vilnius.
April242023
April242023
On Sunday, a global alliance uniting lawmakers addressed French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna with a request to declare Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye persona non grata. The request comes after the ambassador’s controversial statements about the sovereignty of the Baltic States.
April212023
Three Lithuanian medics are leaving for Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, where they will be assessing people’s health, helping with diagnoses and overall health and social issues.
April212023
The newly elected mayor and councillors at the Vilnius district municipality were sworn in on Friday, with the decision on the ruling coalition at the council yet to come.
April212023
Lawyer Ignas Vėgėlė has revealed that he is considering standing as a candidate in 2024 presidential elections as public opinion polls indicate he has voter support.
April202023
On 19 April, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna was on a visit to Lithuania to meet with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen and head of the Estonian-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce Robert Juodka, said the MFA.
April202023
Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen on Wednesday in Vilnius met with President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan.
April192023
Influential German politicians have acknowledged that the war in Ukraine, which has been going for over a year now, finally made them understand Russia and the threat it poses, and now they are ready to help Ukraine expeditiously. “Now, no one can blame us for being slow,” the guests said.
April192023
Residents’ involvement in household waste management is increasing, but a greater motivation to separate waste is necessary, the National Audit Office says.
April192023
Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė visited Poland and on Tuesday in Warsaw met with Minister of Economic Development and Technology Waldemar Buda. The officials discussed how Lithuania could help Poland solve the grain crisis.
April192023
More than 10,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are being held by Russia, head of the non-governmental organisation Military Liberation, Natalia Epifanova, said in a press conference at the Lithuanian Parliament on 18 April. She noted that the number of POW exchanges decreased significantly recently and asked the Seimas to help Ukraine free its captive soldiers.
April182023
On Tuesday, Vilnius will be hosting its first cybersecurity forum, Cyber Champions Summit, the Ministry of National Defence reports.
April182023
Vilnius mayor-elect Valdas Benkunskas says that the TS-LKD and the Freedom Party have different approaches regarding the “humanisation of streets”, but the Vilnius city municipality is set to focus on improving the streets in poor condition in the coming years.
April172023
On Monday, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis will be paying a working visit to Poland and will meet with Zbigniew Rau, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
April172023
Voters continue to view incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda as the most realistic winner of the 2024 presidential election, the latest opinion poll commissioned by the news website Delfi shows.
April162023
On Thursday and Friday, Lithuania’s Chief of Defence Lt Gen Valdemaras Rupšys paid a visit to Slovakia where he met with Chief of the General Staff of the Slovak Armed Forces General Daniel Zmeko, the Lithuanian Armed Forces announce.
April162023
The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) has agreed on more than twenty proposals to improve provisions of the electoral code that were mostly prompted by legal loopholes found in the recent local elections.
April142023
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces it has summoned a representative of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in Lithuania on Friday. The Belarusian official was handed a diplomatic note in strong protest against the repeated violations of the Lithuanian state border.
April142023
President Gitanas Nausėda has vetoed the law on national sanctions against Russian and Belarussian citizens that the Seimas passed last week as he urges MPs to be consistent and apply equal restrictions for the nationals of both countries.
April142023
On Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Andriy Kostin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine.