Eastern Partnership

The Ministry of National Defence held a High-level Seminar for the Eastern Partners and their engagement in the EU Common Security and Defence Policy in Vilnius on 29-30 November. It was attended by senior officials on behalf of Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, the ministry reports.

Julia Mickiewicz – a Belarusian activist, co-founder of the Feminist group within the Coordination Council in Belarus – had to leave her country 2 years ago. Together with the organisation for non-formal organisation for which she works, Julia relocated to Lithuania. Julia tells about life in immigr...

Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen on Wednesday in Vilnius met with President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan.

The Lithuanian parliament could declare a state of emergency if people failed to follow the lockdown restrictions imposed by the government to get the spread of COVID-19 under control, Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said.

Lithuania's Vytautas Magnus University says it is establishing a support fund and will accept 50 more students from Belarus.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius on Friday spoke by phone with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts amid continuing clashes on the border between the two South Caucasus countries.

Discussions on the safety of the Astrayets nuclear power plant in Belarus, set to be launched in August, will continue, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission said on Thursday after a video conference of Eastern Partnership leaders in Brussels.

The Eastern Partnership program needs a new EU strategy, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says, adding that the Eastern Partnership policy needs to be taken to a new level.

Lithuania is a strong supporter of Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Thursday after meeting with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili.

On July 16, President Gitanas Nausėda and First Lady Diana Nausėdienė will travel to Poland for their first official visit. In Warsaw, the President will meet with the highest-ranking Polish officials: President Andrzej Duda, Marshal of the Sejm Marek Kuchcinski, Marshal of the Senate Stanislaw Karc...

The Eastern partnership policy, a cornerstone of the European Union in terms of developing relationships with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, will soon celebrate its first decade of operation. From its inception, it has been based both on values (strengthening democracy a...

During the Davos World Forum, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė held bilateral talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Armenia’s new Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The Lithuanian head of state emphasized during her meeting with the Ukrainian president that the international commun...

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze is arriving in Lithuania for an official visit. Discussions on bilateral relations and economic are to be held during meetings with President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, lrt.lt writes.

Last month, the seventh Lithuanian and Polish policy and foreign affairs expert meeting was held in Birštonas.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is going to Brussels on Monday to attend an EU Foreign Affairs Council, with the Eastern Partnership, Libya and North Korea being on the meeting's agenda.

Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis is leaving for a three-day visit to the United States.

Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis will pay a visit to the United States in late June.

Manfred Weber, leader of the European Parliament's largest political group, says that Lithuania should choose Europe amid recent tensions between the European Union and the United States.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday called Georgia the leader of the EU's Eastern Partnership program, urging the country to continue its legal reforms.

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday congratulated Montenegro on the progress it has made seeking EU membership. But he also stressed the fact its EU membership would be linked to achieved results and not a timetable.