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On 11 September, President Edgars Rinkēvičs met with the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reyenders to discuss Russia’s responsibility for the crimes committed against Ukraine, as well as the priorities of the Latvian presidency of the Council of Europe. The meeting took place in the margins...
Addressing the participants of the international economic conference Vilnius 700: Creating a Better Future in a Turbulent World on Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda highlighted Lithuania’s readiness to take part in the creation of a unified, open, competitive, and peaceful Europe, where each country...
National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas is not surprised that Russia has cancelled this year’s large-scale military exercise Zapad (West). Moscow had already lacked the necessary capacity to hold the drills as it was mobilising its full military power for the war in Ukraine, he says.
President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda says Pope Francis’ statements about the heritage of “great Mother Russia” were ill-considered and hurt many people.
President Gitanas Nausėda expects authorities to improve the protection of the border with Russia after a father kidnapped his child and fled to Kaliningrad region by crossing a river in a rubber boat last week.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania will summon the apostolic nuncio after Pope Francis’ statements about “great Mother Russia”, which caused international outcry amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
On Sunday, a father kidnapped a daughter from a mother and fled from Lithuania to Russia across a river in a rubber boat. Russia has refused to return the kidnapped toddler to Lithuania. Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says authorities are working actively to have the child returned.
Speaking at the International Crimea Platform Summit in Kyiv on Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda emphasised that the consequences of Russia’s illegal occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula are still painfully felt today and that lasting peace is impossible without the return of contr...
President Gitanas Nausėda will decide on revoking the citizenship of figure skater Margarita Drobiazko, who lives in Russia, after hearing all the sides, a chief adviser to the president says.
National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas says he expects Lithuania to withdraw from the convention banning cluster munitions in the future. The politician shared this on his Facebook account on Sunday, in response to a question about Lithuania’s potential acquisition of cluster bombs.
The State Border Guard Service (VSAT) announced that a fake image was posted online claiming that a mercenary from Wagner private military company had crossed the border from Belarus to Lithuania.
On Wednesday evening, the third anniversary of rigged Belarusian presidential elections and subsequent protests was marked in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius. Activists took part in a march against war, military aggression and repressions in Russia and Belarus.
At the beginning of 2023, Latvia had population of 1 million 883 thousand, of which children (people aged 17 and under) accounted for 361 thousand or 19.2%, the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSB) said on Friday.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė sent a message of greetings, on behalf of the Government and the people of Lithuania, to Singapore celebrating their National Day, said the Office of the Government.
On Tuesday, Commander of the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) General Rustamas Liubajevas met with President Gitanas Nausėda. Afterwards, speaking about the planned closure of two border crossing points at the border with Belarus, Liubajevas told reporters that this would contribute to enhancing th...
Lithuania is considering closing two border crossing points on the border with Belarus due to Wagner Group presence in the neighbouring country. President’s adviser Darius Urbonas says the move would not have economic impact.
On Thursday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Suwałki to discuss the security situation on the border, the threats posed by the presence of the Wagner group in Belarus, the likelihood of provocations and the readiness to counter them, the presidency repo...
Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs on Monday met with Agriculture Minister Didzis Šmits to discuss current issues in the agricultural sector in Latvia and assistance to Ukraine, the presidency reports.
The Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) in the European Union has reached an agreement on new sanctions against Belarus, says Lithuania’s Ambassador Arnoldas Pranckevičius.
Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas says that Lithuania’s geopolitical situation has not changed after the arrival of Russia’s private military company Wagner to Belarus.